waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates …, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … regions as identifying information. Because we include region and time effects, we interpret regression-adjusted population …

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …