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Fighting persistent regional unemployment : the Paltamo Full Employment experiment
Hämäläinen, Kari; Hamalainen, Ulla - 2012
persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related … lower the unemployment rate in Paltamo by almost 10 percentage points in just two years time during an era of global … financial crisis. The costs of this remarkable drop in unemployment were 3.4 million Euros in 2010. The results show that one …
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The accessibility to Employment Offices in the Spainish labour market
Suárez, Patricia; Mayor, Matías; Cueto, Begoña - 2010
The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575167
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The value of public service broadcasting in Japan : the life satisfaction approach
Okuyama, Naoko - 2017
Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750480
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On-the-job search : amount, regional, and cyclical variation evidence from Great Britain
Longhi, Simonetta - 2010
Recent theoretical and empirical models of job search and job matching include on-the-job search as one of the relevant variables and implicitly or explicitly assume that on-the-job search increases in periods of growth and decreases in economic downturns. Because of lack of suitable data,...
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