neighbourhood unemployment rate. Other neighbourhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this … we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the …

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Paris region (Ile … exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to recover a survival …

the Census of Services to examine law firms' boundaries. We first examine how the specialization of lawyers and firms … increases as lawyers' returns to specialization increase. In fields where lawyers increasingly specialize with market size, the … specialization by mediating exchanges of economic opportunities more efficiently than markets. …

unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …

What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While … much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run, due … from specialization were large, and specialization had little impact on the fraction of total income spent by local …

In this paper, we incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping generations model … unemployment insurance levels in a politico-economic equilibrium. The interaction between the political decision about the level of … the unemployment insurance and the optimal search behavior of the unemployed gives rise to a self-reinforcing mechanism …