The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … aggregate data to explore the distribution of the unemployed in 8109 Spanish districts (using monthly 2005-2009 data …). Furthermore (2), we connect this distribution with the efficient (or inefficient) location of Employment Offices in Spain. Due to …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

"Why are low-quality jobs created at SMEs? It is because the large companies hand over labor-intensive production to … the jobs created at SMEs today are found in low-level companies, such as those with 5-19 employees, the quality of … employment of SMEs as a whole is inevitably low. The rate of increase in per capita value-added for large firms was made possible …

Those in employment are people above a specified age who, during a specified period, were in paid employment or self-employment …. People in paid employment during the reference period performed some work for a wage or salary, in cash or in kind, or they …