models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment …Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …

as employment, requires an understanding of spatial (or spatio-temporal) autocorrelation effects associated with a … deal with the analysis of and accounting for spatial autocorrelation by means of spatial filtering t! echniques for data … pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

relationship between homeownership and commutes while controlling for other variables, and possible effects of selection and …

More than a decade ago Oswald has formulated the thesis that homeownership increases unemployment. Empirical research … new job elsewhere. However, in general for European countries, residential mobility associated with unemployment spells … seekers and commuting costs. We show that decreasing absolute risk aversion implies that the exit rate from unemployment is …

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 …

error models – to correct for misspecification due to neglected spatial autocorrelation in the data set. Our empirical … spatial structure that is required for the estimation of spatial models improves the forecasting performance of non …

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 … with other regions. These hypotheses are confirmed by means of an estimation of wage curves with data for 327 regions of …