Albanian migration based on a unique representative survey of rural households. The study confirms that migrants are mostly … young, male, and single. Regional variations in migration reflect a combination of cultural and economic factors, including … migration costs. However, we find that migrants do not come from the poorest rural households. Moreover, education has a …

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …

Socio-economic interrelationships among regions can be measured in terms of economic flows, migration, or physical … pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …