This paper studies how industry specialization, diversification, and churning affect unemployment rates in Chinese … can significantly decrease unemployment rate; however, specializing in finance industry increases unemployment rate. In … unemployment rates in Chinese cities, possibly due to the higher degree of industry churning during the sample period. We also find …

-term unemployment in Romania has grown in both absolute and relative terms in the last few years, leading to increased expenditures …, both absolutely and in relation to unemployment benefits, for the support allowance and social assistance programs and for … private sector investment, helping to reduce unemployment and ultimately leading to the improvement of the living standards …

This paper studies the spatial distribution of unemployment by gender, in the counties of Romania, in 2008.The Lorenz … curve and Gini index are used to identify a pattern of spatial concentration of unemployment, differentiated by gender …. Evaluation of gender differences in unemployment spatial concentration model shows significant differences. There is a greater …

development aims to stimulate private sector investment and contribution to reducing unemployment. As regards Romania, growth … unemployment and rural activities, and the inability to attract foreign direct investment. …

In this paper we examine the nature of disparities in regional (State) unemployment rates in Australia over the period … 1978-1999 and their relationship to the national unemployment rate. As a measure of dispersion we use the sum of the … (weighted) deviations of regional unemployment rates from the national rate. We show that this figure may be interpreted as the …

This paper has as its subject matter the behaviour of state unemployment rates over time. Arguments are presented which … suggest that the common approach which entails regressing state or regional rate of unemployment on the national rate is not …, the behaviour over time in the dispersion of state unemployment rates and their relationship with the business cycle and …

unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …

The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future … shocks do not systematically lead to more persistent unemployment than monetary policy shocks, so these cannot explain the … rising persistence of unemployment. Second, monetary and fiscal policies can account for only part of the evolving …

The purpose of the article was a space-time analysis of the unemployment rate in polish poviats. In the research we use … unemployment rate registered in Poland at the end of the years 2004-2009. In the first part the unemployment rate was analyzed for …