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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...
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This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) introduces asymmetric location of firms. Moreover, changes in that lower bound or in global...
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We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by -0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share. …
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differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour … decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or … accounting for regional differences in both employment and economic inactivity rates. …
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intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from … the labour force. FPOs slightly, but significantly enhanced exits to employment without reinforcing recidivism relative to …
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In a randomized field experiment, we provide personalized suggestions about suitable alternative occupations to long-term unemployed job seekers in the UK. The suggestions are automatically generated, integrated in an online job search platform, and fed into actual search queries. Effects on the...
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This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross … of immigrants across European regions over the 2010-2019 period had a modest impact on the employment-to-population rate …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …
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European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home region rather than to go prospecting in more dynamic areas. In this paper, we attempt to...
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Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living...
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"This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...
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