This paper reviews the Italian unemployment experience, analyzing in particular the time-series behavior of … unemployment rates along the path that brought Italy into Europe s Economic and Monetary Union, and their disaggregated structure … across geographical and demographic dimensions. High aggregate unemployment is a reflection of highly concentrated …

persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related … lower the unemployment rate in Paltamo by almost 10 percentage points in just two years time during an era of global … financial crisis. The costs of this remarkable drop in unemployment were 3.4 million Euros in 2010. The results show that one …

housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …

public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment. I look at the case of geographically … productivity unbalance across regions, is responsible for up to 40% of the unemployment gap between the North and South. Policy … experiments suggest that reducing the size of public employment reduces unemployment in lower productive regions while allowing …