This paper presents a spatial analysis of unemployment rates in Germany. The goal of this analysis is to explain the stubbornly low labor productivity and high unemployment rates in Eastern Germany. We build a model of commuting to distinguish between worker and job characteristics as the main...

I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local prices adjust to maintain the spatial...

As known, Italy is characterized by a strong polarization between North and South and the 2007 crises has exacerbated such pattern. Most of the story is related to the regional labour market functioning. The paper investigates upon the functioning of Italian labour market at NUTS 2 level, over...