measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within …-unemployment provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …

that both nations must use to export goods--affects the wage and location decisions of firms, the allocation of labor, the … simulated spatial labor market model is used to explore the economic effects of various stages of regional integration …. Beginning with autarky as a benchmark case, we consider two forms of regional integration: partial mobility (mobile labor with …

labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the … labor markets. The estimates show a statistically significant, but weak, negative connection between the concentration of … foreigners in a local labor market and the likelihood of employment among European citizens residing in that labor market. The …

changes in heterogeneity, e.g. increased demand for skilled labor, are also analyzed. In the most reasonable setup, a change …