We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the … implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …

unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a strong and persistent rise in segregation between workers and the unemployed … less even with respect to the distribution of unemployment. Regarding centrality, we demonstrate that local unemployment … unevenness and concentration of unemployment in the center, but find little affirmative evidence. Instead, the strong overall …