The purpose of the article was a space-time analysis of the unemployment rate in polish poviats. In the research we use a model in which spatial dependence is represented in the exponential form, based on the neighborhood matrix. This model, called the Matrix Exponential model, was proposed by...

The theme of the paper is focused on the application of spatial taxonomic measure of development (pTMR) while analysing the labour market in Poland. The need for the use of a spatial taxonomic measure of development is related to the fact that most economic phenomena are characterized by...

A lot of regional studies cover classification of territorial units due to considering research problem. This approach examines territorial diversification of a phenomena, as well as spatial interactions. The occurrence of spatial dependence can reveal the processes of creating or extanding...

Poziom bezrobocia w regionie oraz aktywnosc ekonomiczna na rynku pracy uznaje sie z jedne z najwazniejszych uwarunkowan poziomu zycia ludnosci. Celem artykulu byla ocena regionalnego zroznicowania wskaznikow charakteryzujacych sytuacje na rynku pracy w zaleznosci od wybranych cech spolecznych i...

Poziom wyksztalcenia ludnosci odgrywa istotna role jako uwarunkowanie dobrej pracy i godziwego wynagrodzenia i w konsekwencji jest jednym z podstawowych czynnikow wplywajacych na rozwoj gospodarczy oraz poziom i jakosc zycia. Glownym celem badan jest okreslenie zaleznosci pomiedzy poziomem...

This paper reviews the empirical research that has been generated by Oswald's thesis, which claims that there is a causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general...

We develop a search model of venture capital where the number of successful matches of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists (VCs) at any moment in time is a function of the number of entrepreneurs searching for funds, the number of VCs searching for entrepreneurs, and the number of vacancies...

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden's social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the sickness report rate and the length of the subsequent...

This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment duration and the spatial distribution of employment. It builds on the spatial mismatch literature by analyzing the role of access in a job search framework. A unique measure of access is created using municipal level employment growth and...

In this paper we use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to construct a series of even history files that follow young black men and women as they age year-by-year from 15 to 30. Given a person's individual, family, and neighborhood characteristics in year t, we predict the odds of various...