This paper considers employment growth and unemployment from 1990-2010 in a cross-section of cities in light of … unemployment rates in 83 central cities in the United States. Change in educational attainment over time is suggestive of causing … higher job growth and lower unemployment. The implication is that initiatives to attract and retain college …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labour market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labour market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labor market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …