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Social Interactions in Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324878
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Search and the City
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P.A. - 2002
We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325015
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Search Theory and Commuting Behavior
Rouwendal, Jan - 2004
In this paper I argue that search theory is a useful addition to the way economists and geographers have approached the study of commuting behavior. This is illustrated by showing that introduction of a spatial element into the standard model of job search leads to the prediction of critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325209
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Compensation of Regional Unemployment in Housing Markets
Vermeulen, Wouter; van Ommeren, Jos - 2005
Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates …, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in … housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a consequence of centralized wage bargaining, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325341
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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007
causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325367
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Spatial Heterogeneity and the Wage Curve revisited
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2004
local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325201
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Geographical Distribution of Unemployment: An Analysis of Provincial Differences in Italy
Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007
Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325317
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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data
Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006
pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325517
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Time-varying state correlations in state space models and their estimation via indirect inference
Schiavoni, Caterina; Koopman, Siem Jan; Palm, Franz; … - 2021
Statistics Netherlands uses a state space model to estimate the Dutch unemployment by using monthly series about the … more realistic real-time unemployment estimates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605986
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Identifying Risk-based Selection in Social Insurance: New Approaches and Findings
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - 2022
We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … find that individuals who sign up for UI are negatively selected in terms of subsequent unemployment. However, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013356496