evidence is only starting to catch up. In particular, EPL is not robust as an indicator of overall unemployment, but previous …

decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour …

We reconsider the central role of the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) in forming policy decisions. We show that the … unemployment rate does not gravitate towards the NRU due to frictional growth, a phenomenon that encapsulates the interplay between … empirical analysis and find that the NRU explains only 33% of the unemployment variation, while frictional growth accounts for …

Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in … force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to inflation and labor force was developed and successfully tested for …. Nevertheless, the model explains between ~65% and ~95% of the variability in unemployment and inflation. For Italy, the rate of …

by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …

years, accompanied by a steep rise in unemployment, which would be around 11.5% in 2010 in the euro area. However, labour … soften the impact of much higher unemployment levels on Europe's potential rate of growth in the future. …

This paper studies the spatial distribution of unemployment by gender, in the counties of Romania, in 2008.The Lorenz … curve and Gini index are used to identify a pattern of spatial concentration of unemployment, differentiated by gender …. Evaluation of gender differences in unemployment spatial concentration model shows significant differences. There is a greater …