unemployment rates in 439 NUTS-3 German districts. We employ a semi-parametric approach – spatial filtering – in order to uncover … filtering analysis of regional unemployment rates in Germany. Furthermore, we exploit the resulting spatial filter as an …

longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …

indicator Ð and our macro performance indicator is the unemployment rate. Independent of the role of other institutions, good … industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. But these results apply in … not seem to be the case that the line of causation runs from unemployment to strikes once we control for the endogeneity …

unemployment during the recent financial crisis and Global Recession. Our specific research questions were as follows: (i) has … there been a reversal in employment and unemployment dynamics at a regional level, during the crisis (2007–10) compared to … unemployment, we have summarized our main findings concerning the Global Crisis’ impact on the labour market. Our econometric …