This paper studies how industry specialization, diversification, and churning affect unemployment rates in Chinese … can significantly decrease unemployment rate; however, specializing in finance industry increases unemployment rate. In … unemployment rates in Chinese cities, possibly due to the higher degree of industry churning during the sample period. We also find …

Beatty C. and Fothergill S. (2005) The diversion from 'unemployment' to 'sickness' across British regions and districts … strongly to extensive hidden unemployment, especially in older industrial areas affected by job losses. This paper builds on …

search geographically do have a higher probability of escaping unemployment. However, this positive effect is not only … likelihood of escaping unemployment, but mainly differences in unobservable characteristics between those who choose to use a …

There is a considerable body of evidence showing that it is the inflow into unemployment that drives the unemployment … leaving employment and moving to unemployment in the six states of Australia. It is concluded that there is a common cyclical …

In this paper we examine the nature of disparities in regional (State) unemployment rates in Australia over the period … 1978-1999 and their relationship to the national unemployment rate. As a measure of dispersion we use the sum of the … (weighted) deviations of regional unemployment rates from the national rate. We show that this figure may be interpreted as the …

This paper has as its subject matter the behaviour of state unemployment rates over time. Arguments are presented which … suggest that the common approach which entails regressing state or regional rate of unemployment on the national rate is not …, the behaviour over time in the dispersion of state unemployment rates and their relationship with the business cycle and …

We study the interactions among geographical mobility, unemployment and home-ownership in an economy with heterogeneous … rate than do renters, generating a link between home-ownership and aggregate unemployment. When calibrated to match … aggregate unemployment is small. When unemployment is high, however, changes in the rate of home-ownership can have economically …

stabilised since then. The first part of the paper aims to describe the regional differentiation in wages and unemployment on the … focus on the effect of unemployment rate, representing an exogenous factor of the region itself. The model’s specification …, employment structure of the regional economy, degree of economic concentration, and district rate of unemployment. The …

The purpose of the paper is to examine the nature of Greek unemployment allowing for cross-sectional dependence among … properties of Greek regional unemployment rates using recently developed and more powerful panel unit-root tests, such as the … regional unemployment rates in Greece are subject to a structural break both in mean and the slope of the series, the null …