for Objective 1 support occurred in the UK region of Cornwall in 2000, we are able to compare Cornwall's unemployment … for not having received Objective 1 funding. Second, we use Local Authority Districts and compare the unemployment change … unemployment in Cornwall as compared to regions that did not benefit from Objective 1 support. In the second part of the study we …

youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … areas of low unemployment, the empirical analysis employs an instrumental variables estimator to identify the causal effect …

This paper investigates the evolution of the geographical distribution of unemployment rates in a sample of 258 NUTS-2 … institutional factors shaping regional unemployment disparities. To that end, the present analysis uses recently developed spatial … kernels are used to analyze the e_x000B_ect of the various factors in the shape of the whole distribution of unemployment rate …

Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This … business-cycle related fluctuations in net migration flows and the crucial role of unemployment and vacancies in shaping …-cycle migration. In this model unemployment arises from search and matching frictions. We endogenize migration via the unemployed …