Dixon, Robert; Mahmood, Muhammad - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 3, pp. 269-286
In this paper we examine unemployment rate dispersion across the (statistical) regions in the Melbourne metropolitan … area. We find that the level of dispersion is positively correlated with the unemployment rate in all the regions taken … together and that the ‘elasticity’ of dispersion with respect to the unemployment rate is unity, with the result that there is …