Regional labour markets disparities have remained stable in Romania, as it is the case in Poland. In spite a huge output decline in the first years of transition, the process of adjustment to sectoral shifts has been slow. We find a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and...

Regional labour markets disparities have remained stable in Romania, as it is the case in Poland. In spite a huge output decline in the first years of transition, the process of adjustment to sectoral shifts has been slow. We find a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and...

This paper examines the magnitude of human capital spillovers on unemployment. Using both individual and metropolitan level data, we find that the adult population share of college graduates is negatively associated with the unemployment rate. More specifically, we find that those who reside in...

We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females' willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...

This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian regions, Marshallian or Jacobs, and whether this...

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...

This paper presents the labour market situation, in particular the employment and unemployment trends in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries that joined the European Union in 2004 (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia). A general feature...

Using German regional data for 1998, 2002 and 2006, this study reexamines the Oswald hypothesis, the conjecture that high levels of home ownership lead to inferior outcomes in regional labor markets. Including a set of controls for regional unemployment rates, three different econometric models...

This paper investigates the joint effect of local labor market conditions and individual differences on the duration of self-employment periods. Using register based, data the study focuses on previously unemployed business founders who have received public support to realize their...

This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...