The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of the accessibility to employment offices on local unemployment rates according to the distribution of three different types of municipalities: large urban, small urban and non-urban. We built a new accessibility measure taking into account the...

El principal objetivo del artículo es llevar a cabo un análisis del papel de los Servicios Públicos de Empleo (SPE) en el mercado de trabajo español. Para ello se realiza un análisis a nivel provincial que incorpora diferentes aspectos espaciales así como la estructura descentralizada de...

Climate variability poses a severe threat to subsistence farmers in southern Africa. Two different approaches have emerged in recent years to address these threats: the use of seasonal precipitation forecasts for risk reduction (for example, choosing seed varieties that can perform well for...

The main feature of shift-share analysis is, according to Dunn (1960), the computation of geographical shifts in economic activity. Nevertheless, the traditional shift-share approach does not include explicitly the interaction between the considered spatial units (countries, municipalities,...