The Mystery of Regional Unemployment Differentials: Theoretical and Empirical Explanations

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Place Based Policies with Unemployment (2013, background): “Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 and NBER moretti@econ.berkeley.edu”
Spatial Dependence in Local Unemployment Rates (2007, background): “Although commuting flows are an obvious form of interactions between areas, their extent and their consequences have been largely neglected in the analysis of regional unemployment differentials (Elhorst, 2003).”
Economic and Social Convergence in Colombia (2015, methodology): “In terms of regional convergence analysis we assume that this variable plays a key role since, as Elhorst (2003b) claims, wide unemployment differentials imply inefficiency in the economy as a whole and reduce economic growth and development.”
Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland (2014, neutral): “…and Neumark, 2000); (ii) individual human capital (O’Higgins, 2001); (iii) family background and networks, i.e. social capital (Coleman, 1988); (iv) structural changes and characteristics of specific economies (Peterson and Vroman, 1992); and (v) skill and geographical mismatches (Elhorst, 2003).”
Geographical distribution of unemployment in Spain (2005, neutral): “E (2003) advances at least three reasons why rates cannot be exogenous in the determination ofunemployment should be considered from a regional unemployment rates.”