crime victimization. In particular, local unemployment rate is found to be one of the most important factor explaining … unemployment rate in the reference neighborhood and in adjacent neighborhoods. The results support the idea that criminals are …

We analyze the distribution of regional unemployment in Europe over the last three decades using non-parametric kernel …-specific unemployment fluctuations. Three phases of distributional change of EU relative unemployment rates are detected: they polarized … the total variance confirming the existence of a European unemployment cycle. Country fluctuations are equally important …

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 …