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This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
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Theoretical reasoning justifies different signs of the relationship between the local variation in unemployment rates … positively related to the unemployment rate. In addition, we study the determinants of labour turnover across NUTS1 and NUTS2 …
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to the additionality degree, the impact of the rate of long-term unemployment is positive …
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Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...
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We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
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This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less …
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional … wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the …
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Persistence of high youth unemployment and dismal labour market outcomes are imminent concerns for most European …
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unemployment from the time they left school up to age 30. We show that this experience is negatively correlated with the life … satisfaction that the individual reports at age 30, so that past unemployment scars. We also identify the childhood circumstances … and family background that predict this adult unemployment experience.Educational achievement and good behaviour at age 16 …
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