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Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David - 2012

Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as a basis for a new research agenda which will give new direction to the neighbourhood effects...

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Primum vivere... industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment

Pastore, Francesco - 2013

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … high unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer …

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On the introduction of firing costs

Ahrens, Steffen; Wesselbaum, Dennis - 2009

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Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik : ein Sachstandsbericht für die Instrumentenreform 2011

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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate … identify potential areas of future research. -- unemployment insurance ; unemployment dynamics ; job search ; labor market …

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