This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …

Theoretical reasoning justifies different signs of the relationship between the local variation in unemployment rates … positively related to the unemployment rate. In addition, we study the determinants of labour turnover across NUTS1 and NUTS2 …

This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less …

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer from low job …

The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional … wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the …

Persistence of high youth unemployment and dismal labour market outcomes are imminent concerns for most European …