unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …

neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …

unemployment rates, three different econometric models are specified and estimated: a cross-sectional model, a pooled data model …, and a model taking into account unobserved time-invariant effects on regional unemployment rates. It is found that the … link between home ownership and unemployment levels is inverse in cross-section but positive in panel estimations. The …

This paper analyses the entire wage effects of unemployment for an especially long observation period. In a three …

unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model ….g. home bias). As a model of unemployment, a migration gravity approach uncovers hitherto under-appreciated interregional …

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 unitroot 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 …

among unemployed people in the South of Italy, despite persistent unemployment in this area, has so far strengthened the … belief that Southern unemployment has a strong voluntary component. In this paper we re-examine this issue in the light of …