This paper studies how industry specialization, diversification, and churning affect unemployment rates in Chinese … can significantly decrease unemployment rate; however, specializing in finance industry increases unemployment rate. In … unemployment rates in Chinese cities, possibly due to the higher degree of industry churning during the sample period. We also find …

This paper considers the determinants of regional disparities in unemployment rates for the UK regions at NUTS-II level …. We use a mixture panel data model to describe unemployment differentials between heterogeneous groups of regions. The … results indicate the existence of two clusters of regions in the UK economy, characterised by high and low unemployment rates …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between the unemployment rate and the output growth in …

The present research provides evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment …

shutdown of non-essential activity on local unemployment rates. Ordinary least squares regressions show that an increment of 10 … percentage points in the share of firms with non-essential activities increases the unemployment rate between 0.08 and 0 … above 2,395 inhabitants. The lockdown explains around 50% of the observed increase in the unemployment rates of these …

Oswald's thesis posits that workers who own their own home should have longer unemployment spells due to restricted … the thesis holds when stated in terms of search intensity instead of unemployment. In a job search model with moving costs …, we provide evidence that homeowners select search methods associated with shorter unemployment spells, suggesting that …

The unemployment insurance system in the U.S. does not provide incentives to look for jobs outside local labor markets …. In this paper I introduce relocation subsidies as a supplement to unemployment benefits, and study their effects on … unemployment, productivity and welfare. I build a job search model with heterogeneous workers and multiple locations, in which …

The main goal of the present work is to split effective unemployment into two components, one dealing with the natural … rate of unemployment, and another with cyclical unemployment. With this purpose in mind, an estimation of stochastic cost … frontiers is performed where natural unemployment is identified as a lower limit and cyclical unemployment as the deviation of …