models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment …Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …

as employment, requires an understanding of spatial (or spatio-temporal) autocorrelation effects associated with a … deal with the analysis of and accounting for spatial autocorrelation by means of spatial filtering t! echniques for data … pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

natural rate of unemployment and a model of regime-dependent government spending. …

endogeneity of the ownership status and institutional differences across countries. Third, post-unemployment wages are studied. We …. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment … do not find any effects of the unemployment spell duration and the geographical mobility on wages after controlling for …

unemployment rate are estimated by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The Markov switching model is identified by constraining the … difference of the unemployment rate. Out of sample forecasts are obtained from Bayesian predictive densities. Although both …