implications showing how these models can explain why ethnic minorities tend to experience higher unemployment rate than workers …

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 …

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 …

This paper develops a theory characterizing the effects of fiscal policy on unemployment over the business cycle. The … theory is based on a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal policy in the form of … government spending on public-sector jobs reduces unemployment, especially during recessions: the fiscal multiplier …

This paper incorporates training in the design of unemployment policies. Human capital falls upon displacement and … continuously depreciates during unemployment. While training counters the decrease in human capital, it also affects the … with varying intensity during the unemployment spell can be enforced by the social planner. The analysis provides three …

labor market frictions and worker heterogeneity provides a framework for studying the impact of trade on unemployment and …