federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to …

This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces … of their disparities. The Spanish economy has one of the highest unemployment rates in the EU and is characterised by … severe regional disparities. We apply the chain reaction theory of unemployment according to which the evolution of …

enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment – the 'wage curve'. …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and … unemployed. Their decisions over job-search are thus typically not optimal and hence the equilibrium unemployment rates are … changes in the workforce distribution have non-negligible effects on unemployment rates, wages and net output. …

On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment … (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our … analytical framework, which follows the chain reaction theory (CRT) of unemployment and argues that (i) a system of interactive …