housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …

Regional disparities in unemployment rates are large and persistent, particularly in some economies such as Spain … some economic, demographic and environmental factors in explaining the gap between low and high unemployment regions. Most … regional differentials in unemployment rates by using the information from the Spanish wave of the Labour Force Survey. An …

A distinctive feature of unemployment is that its incidence is far from being homogeneously distributed in the … territory. Disparities in unemployment rates are not only observed between countries but also between regions within countries …. The available evidence indicates that since the early 80s Spain is a country of high unemployment rates, and persistently …

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 …

Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates …, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in … housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a consequence of centralized wage bargaining, we show that …

persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related … lower the unemployment rate in Paltamo by almost 10 percentage points in just two years time during an era of global … financial crisis. The costs of this remarkable drop in unemployment were 3.4 million Euros in 2010. The results show that one …

exploring the role of national institutions in mediating how global shocks translate into economic disparities between places. …