There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalitiesin the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive datasetof all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996... …

federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability …

On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment … (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our … analytical framework, which follows the chain reaction theory (CRT) of unemployment and argues that (i) a system of interactive …

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment – the 'wage curve' …

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 …

unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model ….g. home bias). As a model of unemployment, a migration gravity approach uncovers hitherto under-appreciated interregional …