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 …

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 …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local … unemployment ratio decreases in response to an increase in the amenity level if the amenity is marginally more beneficial to …