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

pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

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 …

The geographical distribution and persistence of regional/local unemployment rates in heterogeneous economies (such as … an interest in analysing the dynamic adjustment processes of unemployment and the average degree of dependence of the … current unemployment rates or gross domestic product from the ones observed in the past. In this paper, we present a new …