This study examines in which cases economic forces or historical singularities prevail in the determination of the spatial distribution of retail shops. We develop a relatively general model of location choice in discrete space. The main force towards an agglomerated structure is the reduction...

A casual look at regional unemployment rates reveals that there are vast differences, which appearently cannot be explained by different institutional settings. Our paper attempts to trace the these differences in the regions' labor market performance back to the regions' specialization in...

The extent to which workers are threatened by unemployment differs considerably e.g. across branches of industry, age education, and regions. Nonetheless, it is customary to levy obligatory contributions to unemployment insurance UI) regardless of a worker´s specific risk of becoming...