Spatial Interactions of Regional Labour Markets in Europe

Vacancy Duration on Regional Labour Markets in the Netherlands

The focus of this paper is on the functioning of regional labour markets from a demandside perspective. In this respect, vacancy duration is the natural measure of the tightness of the (regional) labour market. The determinants of vacancy duration are studied in the context of a new theoretical model of employer's search behaviour. The model is empirically applied for the Netherlands by specify...

Spatial Interaction and Regional Unemployment in Europe

Changing Labour Markets and Early Career Outcomes: Labour Market Entry in Europe over the Past Decade

The paper addresses the issue of the driving forces behind recent changes in labour market entry outcomes in Europe. Based on data for 12 European countries from the 1988-1997 European Community Labour Force Survey, the empirical analyses estimate panel data models to assess the effects of cyclical changes in aggregate economic conditions, changing youth cohort sizes, increasing educational exp...

Overeducation, regional labor markets, and spatial flexibility

For most workers, access to suitable employment is severely restricted by the fact that they look for jobs in the regional labor market rather than the global one. In this paper we analyze how macrolevel opportunities (regional market characteristics) and microlevel restrictions (the extent to which job searchers are restricted to the regional market) can help to explain the phenomenon of overe...

Persistent Disparities in Regional Unemployment: Application of a Spatial Filtering Approach to Local Labour Markets in Germany

The geographical distribution and persistence of regional/local unemployment rates in heterogeneous economies (such as Germany) have been, in recent years, the subject of various theoretical and empirical studies. Several researchers have shown an interest in analysing the dynamic adjustment processes of unemployment and the average degree of dependence of the current unemployment rates or gros...