Showing 1 - 10 of 1,714
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777512
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141696
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119023
postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124784
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061955
This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870383
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777459
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096147
The aim of this work is to assess the effectiveness of active labour market policies carried out by the Catalan Public Employment Services (SOC) during the year 2005. The results obtained from the application of matching techniques show that the probability of finding a job for an individual who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072171