This study revisits Lilien’s sectoral shifts hypothesis for the US. We employ quantile regression estimation in order to investigate the asymmetric nature of the relationship between sectoral employment and unemployment. Significant asymmetries emerge. Lilien’s dispersion index is...

A short presentation and description of the papers that have been selected from the second workshop of the Regional Studies Research Network on Geographical Localisation, Intersectoral Reallocation of Labour and Unemployment Differentials (GLUNLAB II)) that took place in Rimini, Italy, on May...

A short presentation and description of the papers that have been selected from the First workshop of the Regional Studies Research Network on Geographical Localization, Intersectoral Reallocation of Labour and Unemployment Differentials (GLUNLAB)