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expected, increasing matching effectiveness in the other region yields growing regional unemployment rates. We characterize the …, the regional unemployment rates are much lower than in the decentralized economy and nobody searches in the other region. …
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This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces … severe regional disparities. We apply the chain reaction theory of unemployment according to which the evolution of … mobility in Spain. We show that the degree of labour market flexibility differs between high and low unemployment regions, and …
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(NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our … persistent disparities in the regional unemployment rates. Through standard kernel density tecnhiques, we demonstrate the … natural rates. Our findings confirm that the evolution of regional disparities cannot be attributed to disparities in the …
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role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant flows of recent years despite the limited … employment rates, immigration contributes to greasing the wheels of the Spanish labor market by narrowing regional unemployment … role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant flows of recent years despite the limited …
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2007, the difference in housing price in Spain is larger at lower and higher percentiles. Secondly, the most important part …. With respect to Spain's cities pattern, Madrid, Valencia and Bilbao, are the cities which big difference among them …
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In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from … model to analyze the regional convergence process in the Russian case. We also take into account possible spatial effects … we fail to find any role of human capital for regional economic growth, we find that interregional migration and …
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In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...
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The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
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Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...
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The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic networks. We apply a spatial autoregressive network approach to account for the spill-over effects of migrant ethnic group economic resources and labour market outcomes. We...
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