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A New Regional Geography of Europe?The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...
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Using state level employment thresholds to explain Okun’s Law
Herzog, Ryan W. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-26
determining changes in Okun’s Law. We test for asymmetries in Okun’s Law controlling for changes in industry employment. We find … changes in output on unemployment are least sensitive for states with relatively large employment within government …, construction, and natural resources sectors and lower employment levels in financial, professional and business services and …
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Regional resilience to displacements : explaining the regional capacity to re-employ displaced workers
Nyström, Kristina - 2015
study the regional patterns of re-employment of displaced workers in 81 Swedish regions 2001-2009. For policymakers … understanding how the re-employment process after displacements differs across regions should be valuable knowledge. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478297
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Primum Vivere… Industrial Change, Job Destruction and the Geographical Distribution of Unemployment
Pastore, Francesco - 2013
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088339
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Estimating the Impact of Regional Labor Demand Shocks on Unemployment Using the Synthetic Control Method : Evidence from the Shuttle Program and Florida's Space Coast
Vitt, David - 2018
The discontinuation of the Shuttle program (STS) had a measurable impact on unemployment in Florida's Space Coast, particularly in the years since the initial layoffs in aerospace industries. Estimates of the impact using the synthetic control method suggest that the unemployment rate increased...
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Estimating the Trend Unemployment Rate in the Fourth Federal Reserve District
Fallick, Bruce - 2020
We estimate trend unemployment rates for Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West Virginia, states that span parts of the Fourth District of the Federal Reserve System. Our estimated unemployment rate trend for the District as a whole stood at 5.7 percent in 2020:Q1 compared to a 4.7 percent...
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Mind the Gap : Unemployment in the New EU Regions
Ferragina, Anna; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neoclassical tradition. In the typical neoclassical models, spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318578
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Liberalizing Passenger Rail : The Effect of Competition on Local Unemployment
Badura, Ondrej; Melecky, Ales; Melecky, Martin - 2022
Competitive passenger rail can help workers access new or better jobs. This paper studies the wider economic impacts on local unemployment of the liberalized passenger rail between Ostrava, the third-biggest city in the Czech Republic, and Prague, its capital. The local impacts are estimated at...
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Determinant factors of the living level in rural communities in the Southeast region
Pop, Ruxandra Eugenia - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 285-291). 2019
Within the present paper, some of the most important representative factors for the standard of living of the population in the south-eastern region of our country will be analyzed. It is also desired to present an overview of the current situation regarding the labor market in the territory of...
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Unemployment in the regional context in Latvia
Hohlova, Vera - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 25 (2024) 1, pp. 143-153
This paper sets out a methodological framework for identifying and mitigating unemployment problems in different regions. The study is based on the 2020 and 2023 Latvian Unemployment Surveys. The study includes a comprehensive review of the relevant scientific literature, policy and regulatory...
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