Factors influencing unemployment duration with a special emphasis on migration: an investigation using SIPP data and event history methods
Economic behaviour ; Economic theory ; Employment ; Human capital ; Labour market ; Multivariate analysis ; Probability ; Unemployment ; United States
The A. empirically investigates the factors that cause unemployment to be of a longer or shorter duration. They are identified within a micro-economic framework drawn from human capital and job search theories. Event history methods and panel data
are used to model unemployment duration. Evidence suggests that migration, temporary layoff and income during unemployment combine with individual characteristics to influence the duration of unemployment spells.
The inequality of unemployment experience in a local labour market
Aberdeen ; Local labour market ; Scotland ; Social inequity;Social disparity ; Statistics ; Unemployment ; United Kingdom ; Work ; Working population
This study applies a recently developed methodology in order to estimate the extent of the inequality of unemployment experience in Aberdeen. The findings show that the unemployment burden is indeed unequally shared and that this inequality exhibits
The relationship between regional and national unemployment trends in Slovakia, 1991-1994
Model ; Regional disparities ; Slovak Republic ; Unemployment
In this paper author makes an attempt to analyse the relationship between national and regional unemployment in Slovakia over the 1991-1994 period. Using an elementary statistical model based on a regressional framework involving a set of time
regression, different aspects of regional unemployment patterns are examined. - (Zoltán Kovács).
Does unemployment affect the number of establishments ? A regional analysis for US states
Enterprise creation ; Impact ; Model ; Regional analysis ; Retail trade ; Service ; Unemployment ; United States of America
Empirical tests of the unemployment push hypothesis that unemployed workers start up new enterprises to a greater extent that employed workers to escape unemployment have produced contradictory results. Using data of US establishments in retail
and service industries with low entry barriers, the A. finds little or no evidence for that hypothesis. US regions with relatively high unemployment rates do not show relatively strong subsequent increases in the number of establishments across a broad range
A low rate of unemployment is the remarquable aspect of the general transformation in the country. The regional disparities and changing patterns of male-female, of young people, long-term unemployment and unemployment by educational level
Budapest ; Capital city ; Employment ; Hungary ; Spatial analysis ; Town ; Unemployment ; Urban geography
The paper provides an overview about the structural and spatial features of unemployment in Budapest. The A. explains the most important characteristics of the spatial differences in unemployment in the Hungarian capital, which stands out
with an exceptionally low rate of unemployment among the Hungarian cities. - (JS)
The impact of unemployment insurance benefits on the probability of migration of the unemployed
The results suggest that federal discretionary unemployment-compensation programs, which are implemented during recessionary periods, likely serve to retard out-migration of those who are involuntarily unemployed.
Okun’s law and urban spillovers in US unemployment
Employment ; Labour market ; Scale ; Spatial dependence ; Spillover ; Unemployment ; United States of America
to capture a different source of spatial dependence on unemployment. The main finding is that MSA-specific growth has a small effect on MSA unemployment rate, implying that in a well-integrated labor market like the USA, unemployment at an urban level
is highly dependent on neighboring and national labor market conditions. Ther results also show that the driving forces behind the behavior of unemployment for MSAs are different than those for states.
Rural-urban migration and unemployment : theory and policy implications
Economic equilibrium ; Employment ; Job creation ; Living standard ; Regional economy ; Regional model ; Rural outmigration ; Unemployment ; Urban immigration
A regional model is developed where, in the city, unemployment prevails because of too high (efficiency) wages, while, in the rural area, workers are paid at their marginal productivity. The steady-state equilibrium is characterized and it is shown
that it is unique. Two policies are considered : decreasing urban unemployment benefits and subsidizing urban employment. Decreasing the unemployment benefit in the city creates urban jobs and reduces rural–urban migration since new migrants have to spend some time
unemployed before they can find a job in the city. Raising employment subsidies increases urban employment but may also increase urban unemployment because it triggers more rural–urban migration.
Sectoral change and unemployment during the Great Recession, in historical perspective
Economic activity ; Economic geography ; Economic recession ; Employment ; Industrial sector ; Labour market ; Regional analysis ; Unemployment ; United States of America
This article examines the effect of sectoral change on U.S. state unemployment during the Great Recession. Of the 4.1 percentage point increase in mean state unemployment between 2007 and 2009, increased structural change explains 0.6–1.18
of structural change had returned to normal levels after the Great Recession, their effects persisted, raising mean state unemployment by 0.9–2.3 percentage points in 2011.
Migration and unemployment duration among young adults
Adults ; Human capital ; Internal migration ; Labour market ; Labour migration ; Manpower ; Unemployment ; United States of America
longer durations of unemployment than those who did not migrate. The rate at which they find jobs is linked to how long they have been unemployed and to other characteristics.