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We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over … creation, by contrast, has not picked up in regions of high unemployment. Labour mobility also remains very limited in size … asymmetries are necessary to increase worker mobility and to integrate better national labour markets …
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suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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This paper uses a data set covering 9 EU15 member states and 7 candidate countries and new member states to compare inter-regional migration patterns in the 1990s. We find that migration is lower in candidate countries and new member states than in EU15 member states. Also in contrast to the...
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channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural …
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This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
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This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524877
factors influencing the spatial mobility decisions of households, but little is known about how these factors influenced … mobility during the recent economic crisis. This paper uses rich individual level microdata from the last two Spanish censuses … mobility. Our finding suggest that the role, influence and interconnection of unemployment and homeownership in mobility …
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In this paper we study how the determinants of regional commuting in Italy have evolved in the past fifteen years. Using labour force data from 1992 to 2008 we estimate a model where the probability of commuting is regressed on a wide set of individual, job, firm and regional characteristics....
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data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … process. Since geographic mobility can importantly compensate for regional shocks and it is considered as one of the ways to …
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