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Topa, Giorgio - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1193-1221). 2011

The use of social networks and personal referrals in the labor market is very widespread. Both firms and workers may find it beneficial to use these informal channels to produce successful matches between job seekers and vacancies. This Chapter discusses the existing literature and highlights...

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The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement. A New Regional Geography of Europe?

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto (contributor); … - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro - AIEL

Until recently, regional labour market imbalances were considered transitory phenomena, a consequence of state failure in generating distorted investment incentives in depressed regions as well as of excessive labour market rigidities. Labour mobility and wage flexibility were at the core of the...

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The diversion from 'unemployment' to 'sickness' across British regions and districts

Beatty, Christina; Fothergill, Stephen - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 7, pp. 837-854

Beatty C. and Fothergill S. (2005) The diversion from 'unemployment' to 'sickness' across British regions and districts … strongly to extensive hidden unemployment, especially in older industrial areas affected by job losses. This paper builds on …

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On-the-job search in urban areas

Kawata, Keisuke; Sato, Yasuhiro - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 4, pp. 715-726

This study develops an on-the-job search model involving spatial structure. In this model, workers are either employed and commute frequently to a central business district (CBD) or unemployed and commute less frequently to the CBD in search of jobs. When an unemployed worker succeeds in...

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Second-order polynomial spatial error model. Global and local spatial dependence in unemployment in Andalusia

López-Hernández, Fernando A. - In: Economic Modelling 33 (2013) C, pp. 270-279

application in the analysis of municipal unemployment in the Spanish region of Andalusia. Finally, Monte Carlo is implemented to …

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Unemployment in Greece: Evidence from Greek regions using panel unit root tests

Bakas, Dimitrios; Papapetrou, Evangelia - In: The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 54 (2014) 4, pp. 551-562

The purpose of the paper is to examine the nature of Greek regional unemployment. The paper contributes to the … literature assessing the stochastic properties of Greek unemployment rate in the context of the Greek regions by relying on … in all cases, after taking into account the fact that regional unemployment rates in Greece are subject to a structural …

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The reservation wage curve: Evidence from the UK

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - In: Economics Letters 126 (2015) C, pp. 22-24

We investigate the relationship between an individuals’ reservation wage and unemployment in the local area district … unemployment—the ‘wage curve’. …

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A Caseworker Like Me - Does the Similarity between unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...

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Housing prices and inter-urban migration

Plantinga, Andrew J.; Détang-Dessendre, Cécile; Hunt, … - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 2, pp. 296-306

Economic theory predicts that individual migration decisions for working-age adults will depend on area differences in wages, housing costs, and amenities. While the importance of wages and amenities is well-established from previous empirical studies, evidence regarding housing costs is far...

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Ethnic networks and employment outcomes

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 6, pp. 938-949

This paper explores the relationship between residential proximity of individuals from the same ethnic group and the probability of finding a job through social networks, relative to other search methods. Using individual-level data from the UK Labour Force survey and spatial statistics...

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