possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel … empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration of unemployment spells of male household heads is associated with … Mediterranean, provide a fundamental source of insurance against unemployment in southern Europe. …

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

This paper models regional earnings and unemployment in the ten regions of Great Britain between 1972 and 1995, paying … persistence in regional unemployment rates. We find no evidence of a negative effect of the overall unemployment rate on the …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

those that affect the long-run unemployment rate. …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

analysis has implications for the behavior of aggregate wages in the UK and for the relationship between aggregate unemployment … the unemployment/vacancies equations. In addition, lagged values of average house prices have a significant 'cost …