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Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …
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This paper is concerned with social interactions and their importance for unemployment. A theoretical model is … specified in which the psychological costs of unemployment depend upon the unemployment level. The analysis reveals social … multiplier effects, and shows that multiple unemployment equilibria may emerge. Data on all 20- to 24-year-olds living in …
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The relationships among geographical mobility, unemployment and the value of owner-occupied housing are studied in an … equilibrium, unemployment rates for home-owners are higher than for otherwise identical renters. Unemployment and home … more mobile than owners, the impact of home-ownership on aggregate unemployment is quantitatively small. -- Liquidity …
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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 …
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This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and...
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This paper analyses the entire wage effects of unemployment for an especially long observation period. In a three …
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unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model ….g. home bias). As a model of unemployment, a migration gravity approach uncovers hitherto under-appreciated interregional …
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unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model ….g. home bias). As a model of unemployment, a migration gravity approach uncovers hitherto under-appreciated interregional …
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We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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Residential mobility rates in the United States have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of alternative drivers of residential mobility, including job opportunities,...
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