regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i … unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage …

' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both …

unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a strong and persistent rise in segregation between workers and the unemployed … less even with respect to the distribution of unemployment. Regarding centrality, we demonstrate that local unemployment … unevenness and concentration of unemployment in the center, but find little affirmative evidence. Instead, the strong overall …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future … shocks do not systematically lead to more persistent unemployment than monetary policy shocks, so these cannot explain the … rising persistence of unemployment. Second, monetary and fiscal policies can account for only part of the evolving …

well as a control group of unemployed who did not enter these programs. We add information on unemployment rates and GDP … are limited and starting an own business is an opportunity to leave unemployment. However, the survival of firms in …

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health … that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percent due to collapse of the sector raised mental disorders in the … chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, hopelessness and feelings of uselessness. …

pre-crisis period, are much more likely to lose their jobs and go on unemployment insurance after the crisis. These …