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 …

The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …

unemployment rate are found to be key indicators associated with turning points. Next, we consider at a micro-economic level, using … unemployment rate (both highly correlated with the cycle); (ii) local level economic resilience; and (iii) the likelihood of …

This paper investigates the impact of individual heterogeneity and regional influences on unemployment duration … opportunities impact upon the observed distribution of unemployment duration(s). This is an important issue for policy formation and … unemployed. -- Unemployment Duration ; Job Search ; Regional Labour Markets …

that home-owning does not increase peoples' unemployment probabilities or significantly increase people's unemployment …

The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional … wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the …

months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …