Throughout the world, strong dispersions of both regional and national unemployment rates can be observed. The economic … between size and unemployment. Using data from 37 countries, 15 continents and trade areas as well as 496 federal states, we … will demonstrate that larger economic regions tend to have higher unemployment rates. Subsequently, we show that this …

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … high unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer …

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … high unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer …