There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Paris region (Ile … exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to recover a survival …

employment. The work relies on a two-stage analysis of unemployment spells drawn from an exhaustive dataset over the 1993 …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …

The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 percentage points, with roughly …’ labour supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that the fall in unemployment since …

unemployment in the Paris region. We first survey the general mechanisms according to which residential segregation and spatial … accessibility indices on the labour-market transitions out of unemployment using the 1990-2002 Labour Force Survey. Our results show …

In this paper, we study the effects of unemployment benefit duration and the business cycle on unemployment duration …. We construct durations for individuals entering unemployment from a longitudinal sample of Spanish men in 1987 …–94. Estimated discrete hazard models indicate that receipt of unemployment benefits significantly reduces the hazard of leaving …