, household incomes, unemployment or quality of life estimates. Therefore we estimate regional utility differentials for German …

spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …

variables as well as for labour market factors such as unemployment rates, income and house prices. We compare several model … specifications. Results on employment/unemployment are fairly consistent across models. Results on other variables, for instance …

unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The RHOMOLO model is parameterised by estimating the key structural parameters … assess the impact on regional labour markets. Our results confirm that wages and unemployment are by far the most important …