specifically long-term unemployment. …

spatial mismatch on local unemployment rates. Factors such as the socio-economic composition of population and mobility access …

A two-sector model of urban unemployment is developed which focuses on the formation of a secondary sector under … conditions in which a demand shock in the primary sector leads to a sharp increase in unemployment. The optimal location in the …

worker's productivity is independent of his type. We show that equilibrium unemployment arises in the wage-setting game under …

, compared to estimating at the underlying regional level. The distribution of regional unemployment rates within countries over … time is not mean-scaled. Regions with low unemployment rates are the main drivers of changes in aggregate unemployment. The … steepness of a log-linear wage curve in regions with low unemployment dominates at the aggregate (country) level, overestimating …

calibrated. The model is used to look at possible explanations for the recent sharp decline in the UK working-age unemployment … different shocks considered, the most plausible combination consists of a significant reduction in unemployment benefits …

Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) have argued that, in regional data, the level of unemployment is related to the level of … predict that the change in wages ought to be related to the unemployment rate. On the other hand, there is considerable …

This paper documents the role of unemployment and earnings risk in reconciling evidence in payoff differentials between … the role of lower unemployment risk in self-employment. We decompose earnings risk dynamics by estimating a life …