The common view that far-reaching labour market deregulation is the only remedy for high European unemployment is too …

This paper offers an alternative theory for the increase in unemployment and wage inequality experienced in the U …

We consider a continuum of unemployed workers ranked according to their unemployment duration. There are two industries … a training cost, which is proportional to his unemployment duration, the training cost being larger in the high …

interested in regional adjustment costs can use indices of the change in regional employment and unemployment as good proxies for …

significant unemployment elasticity of -0.02 up to -0.03 rather than the -0.07 reported in the static wage curve results reported …

New Economic Geography models usually abstract from unemployment. By contrast, wage curve models (Blanchflower and … Oswald, 1994) imply a negative correlation between regional unemployment and wages, but fail to account for agglomeration … unemployment rates than peripheral regions. Regional disparities can develop endogenously and labour mobility does not negate the …

between current wages and current unemployment rate, we also consider the influence of lagged values of unemployment rates … -the unemployment rate at the moment of hiring, and the minimum unemployment rate since the moment of hiring- to take into …