We examine whether income and unemployment risks are compensated by individual wages. Using a portfolio approach we … show that the marginal income risk effect on wages is always positive whereas the marginal unemployment risk effect …

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 …

In this paper, we describe the usefulness of stock sample measures for average unemployment durations, when the … parameter of interest is the expected unemployment duration. If both job separations and job accessions follow a Poisson process … duration distribution. We propose a new measure for unemployment durations (an inflow corrected stock sample measure of …