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 theory of unemployment according to which the evolution of …

This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period … richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can capture the unemployment effects of growing variables such as … capital stock. After classifying the 17 Spanish regions into high and low unemployment groups using kernel and cluster …

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 …

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

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 …

This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … positively related to the unemployment level. This general conclusion is robust to sub-sampling that addresses potential …

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move … 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 …