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 …

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

Regional disparities in unemployment rates are large and persistent, particularly in some economies such as Spain … some economic, demographic and environmental factors in explaining the gap between low and high unemployment regions. Most … regional differentials in unemployment rates by using the information from the Spanish wave of the Labour Force Survey. An …

A distinctive feature of unemployment is that its incidence is far from being homogeneously distributed in the … territory. Disparities in unemployment rates are not only observed between countries but also between regions within countries …. The available evidence indicates that since the early 80s Spain is a country of high unemployment rates, and persistently …

local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be …

Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates …, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in … housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a consequence of centralized wage bargaining, we show that …

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 …

spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …

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 …

Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates …, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in … housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a consequence of centralized wage bargaining, we show that …