Since the start of the Great Recession the unemployment rate in Spain has risen by almost 18 percentage points. The … unemployment crisis is affecting all population groups, including the more highly educated; but it is even more acute for the … foreign population, whose unemployment rate is close to 40%. This situation follows a period of very high immigration flows …

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with … that the age pattern of search unemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new concept of 'voluntary …' unemployment that agrees well with observations. …

unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the …

geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … particular, it predicts lower geographical mobility of homeowners as well as higher exit rates from unemployment by acceptance of … causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on …

otherwise identical workers result in wage inequality and differences in unemployment rates. The paper is related to theoretical … wage on average and face a lower unemployment rate. Numerical computations for the specific case in which connections …

. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility …

. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment … do not find any effects of the unemployment spell duration and the geographical mobility on wages after controlling for …This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries …

migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial … associate the improvement in the skill of immigrants to a change in the composition of new entrants. An important mechanism … underlying the assimilation is the higher likelihood of recent immigrants in changing jobs among different sectors and firms, but …

to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …