concerned that unemployment relief and social services were inadequate to meet the needs of the community in 'Special Areas'. It …

This paper studies the role of unemployment in sterling’s inter-war experience. According to most narrative accounts …, the proximate cause of the 1931 sterling crisis was a high and rising unemployment rate that placed pressure on British … currency crises, highlights the conflict between the objective of low unemployment and defence of the currency and show that it …

The paper suggests alternatives to the Harris-Todaro theory to explain unemployment in segmented labour markets. We … formation. Unemployment and labour-market segmentation are explained with reference to heterogeneous preferences, productivities … and endowments among workers. The responsiveness of unemployment to external shocks is shown to depend crucially on …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

The unemployment dynamics in the Mezzogiorno of Italy seem to corroborate the New Economic Geography predictions …, whereby, under some specific hypotheses, a stronger economic integration can amplify the regional polarisation of unemployment … carries out a comparative analysis of unemployment rates of the different ‘Mezzogiornos of Europe’. Finally, some policy …

and talents in the transformation process. To a large extent, the emergence of unemployment is an indicator of this … restructuring and reallocation. This paper surveys some of the issues involved in the rise of CEE unemployment as well as the policy …

The paper surveys recent analyses of rising unemployment in Europe based on the concept of the natural rate. It argues … efficiency wages, hysteresis, and insiders/outsiders are related to a core theory in which the unemployment benefit is the basic …, and that in its absence they would fail to explain unemployment. …