groups. If the rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values … during the transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios unemployment differentials are basically determined by the … unemployment benefits and provision of direct support to the employers of low-productivity workers. -- Unemployment Models …

The paper analyses how the municipality-level unemployment rates of 1993 and their changes in 1993-2001 were affected … affect unemployment and public transport connections. Compared to previous OLS results the effect of availability appears to … be stronger. The unemployment rate differentials between integrated and remote municipalities have been increasing since …