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 … western Germany over the period 1990-97. Key words: Unemployment, wage formation, spatial analysis, local monopsony, Germany …

that had been characterized for many years by high unemployment and declining employment. Beginning in 2005, however, the … young and smaller cohorts has affected the declining unemployment rate in East Germany. This paper tackles the question of … the ties between demography and unemployment in East Germany and to this end draws on the concepts of the cohort crowding …

Much research has been done showing that unemployment can cause crime, and that crime adversely impacts economic … find evidence for the possibility of a vicious cycle, with unemployment leading to higher crime rates and crime rates … raising unemployment. I further find that especially employment in low-skill service jobs is adversely affected by crime, that …

with the analysed phenomena. In this paper, provincial time series of unemployment rates in Spain are used in order to … along time and with the effects of scale in the regionalisation process. Keywords: Unemployment, normative region …

partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …

, such as GDP per capita, employment/unemployment rates, household savings and use them to compare the regional disparities …

This paper investigates the evolution of the geographical distribution of unemployment rates in a sample of 258 NUTS-2 … institutional factors shaping regional unemployment disparities. To that end, the present analysis uses recently developed spatial … kernels are used to analyze the e_x000B_ect of the various factors in the shape of the whole distribution of unemployment rate …

The inverse relationship between unemployment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), commonly known as Okun?s law, has been … on unemployment is a particular feature of the Spanish economy. During the current economic downturn unemployment rate … unemployment rates from 20 percent of the labour force to levels slightly above the European average. The analysis of the …