panel of outflows, unemployment and vacancy stocks data from the registers at Jobcentres in the UK; these are mapped on to … theory. For example, we find that conditional on local labour market conditions, high unemployment levels in neighbouring … areas raise the number of local filled vacancies but lower the local outflow from unemployment. -- matching model …

This paper estimates the probability distribution of relative county unemployment in Britain for the years 1981 … unemployment transition is defined as a move between a tail and the centre of the distribution (and vice versa). We calculate …) unemployment regions have a higher probability of entering a state of lower (higher) unemployment than a state of higher (lower …

The regional distribution of unemployment rates in the Czech Republic over the transition period is shown to be … characterized by twin peaks, e.g. a high and a low unemployment equilibrium. The emergence of strong regional disparities at the … unemployment to job exits are taken into account and dynamic panel estimators are applied, the Czech matching function is shown to …