In Volume 43, Number 8 of Regional Studies (October 2009) we published the following article, which is now retracted. BAUM, Scott, BILL, Anthea and MITCHELL, William F. (2009) “Employability and Labour Underutilisation in Non-Metropolitan Labour Markets” Regional Studies, 43: 8, 1091–1103. Seven months following publication of this article it was brought to the Association's attention that some sections of the text in this article were substantively the same as in article below: BAUM, Scott, BILL, Anthea and MITCHELL, William F. (2008) “Employment outcomes in non metropolitan labour markets: individual and regional labour market factors” Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, 5–25. Following this alert the Association immediately contacted both the editorial team for Regional Studies and the journal's publishers, Taylor & Francis Group (a division of Informa Plc). Legal advice was sought from a lawyer expert in publishing law and based on careful consideration of this advice and of guidelines laid out by COPE, the Committee of Publishing Ethics of whom both the publisher and the journal are members, it was agreed that the correct course of action would be the retraction of this article. The Review Committee consisting of members of each of the three parties, Editors, Association and Publishers conducted an inquiry into the treatment of this paper. They concluded that the paper had been through the correct procedural steps and that the standards applied had been professional and rigorous in line with gold standard practice in journal publishing. The Editors of Regional Studies, the Regional Studies Association and the publishers, Taylor & Francis Group (a division of Informa Plc) hereby apologise to the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies.