This paper considers the determinants of regional disparities in unemployment rates for the UK regions at NUTS-II level …. We use a mixture panel data model to describe unemployment differentials between heterogeneous groups of regions. The … results indicate the existence of two clusters of regions in the UK economy, characterised by high and low unemployment rates …

This paper studies how industry specialization, diversification, and churning affect unemployment rates in Chinese … can significantly decrease unemployment rate; however, specializing in finance industry increases unemployment rate. In … unemployment rates in Chinese cities, possibly due to the higher degree of industry churning during the sample period. We also find …

Oswald's thesis posits that workers who own their own home should have longer unemployment spells due to restricted … the thesis holds when stated in terms of search intensity instead of unemployment. In a job search model with moving costs …, we provide evidence that homeowners select search methods associated with shorter unemployment spells, suggesting that …

In this paper an attempt is made to inquire the dynamics of regional unemployment rates in transition economies. We use … policy relevant NUTS4 unemployment rates for transition economies characterised by both relatively intense (Poland, Slovaka … high and very low unemployment show signs of high persistence and low mobility in the national distribution, while the …

This paper analyzes convergence of unemployment rates in Poland at NUTS4 level by testing nonlinear convergence … contribute to this phenomenon. There are some circumstances under which unemployment convergence should be more awaited than in …

is an element that can not be separated from the other elements of the work market, especially from unemployment, because …. There are many causes for unemployment, causes that are to be found both at the macroeconomic level and at the microeconomic … level. In most of the cases, in an analysis that aims at finding the causes that have generated the unemployment, many …