This study evaluates a regional full employment initiative using the synthetic control method introduced by Abadie and … Gardeazabal (2003). The aim of the Paltamo Full Employment (PFE) experiment launched in 2009 is to reverse the trend of high and … persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related …

The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities …). Furthermore (2), we connect this distribution with the efficient (or inefficient) location of Employment Offices in Spain. Due to … existence of asymmetric information between job seekers and firms we think that an Employment Offices increase the employment …