Spain has had a serious structural unemployment problem for the last 20 years. This paper argues that the interaction of /ring costs and job-to-job 0ows added to changes in unemployment bene/ts, could provide an explanation for equilibrium unemployment increasing, since 1984. First, we construct...

This paper examines unemployed workers' willingness to move for work and its relationship with their unemployment duration in Spain. We use a hypothetical question in the Spanish Labour Force Survey: ''Would you accept a job offer which implied a change of residence?''. The main finding is that...

In this paper we study the effects of unemployment benefit duration and the business cycle on unemployment duration. We construct durations for individuals entering unemployment from a longitudinal sample of Spanish men in 1987-1994. Estimated discrete hazard models indicate that receipt of...

This paper modifies Van den Berg's (1990) nonstationary model of search, considering the existence of a firing probability. The presence of firing makes unemployed workers lower their reservation wage because of the entitlement effect embodied in accepting a job offer. In this nonstationary...

In this paper we analyze the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel data on households in five countries. Our empirical relsuts indicate that an increase in the duration of unemployment spells of male household heads is associated with smaller...

Migration among Spanish regions has fallen significatly since the 1970s, in spite of large and widening regional unemployment rate differentials. In this paper I argue that this evolution is the result of : a large increase in the national unemployment rate; the reduction in regional dispersion...