Regional Unemployment Disparities: The Case of the Swiss Cantons |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
UNEMPLOYMENT | 15 |
Approaches to Unemployment | 33 |
A DESCRIPTION OF THE LABOUR | 47 |
Unemployment in Switzerland | 81 |
Unemployment rates by gender 19901995 | 86 |
Unemployment rates by sectors 19911995 | 92 |
in the 1990s | 93 |
Definitions of Unemployment | 101 |
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON REGIONAL | 105 |
OLS Regression coefficients and tstatistics | 114 |
Statistics of the variables used | 127 |
Summary and Conclusions | 145 |
| 159 | |
List of Tables and Figures | 167 |
Common terms and phrases
26 cantons adjustment mechanism analysis Appendix Basel-Stadt Box-Cox transformation Breusch-Pagan test cantonal unemployment cantons of Switzerland Chapter commuting concentration correlated cyclical diversified dummy variable econometric economic employed factors FEMALE POP Figure foreign population foreign workers frictional unemployment gional Graubünden growth Herfindahl index heteroscedastic higher unemployment impact income per capita increase independent variables industry and construction influence international migration interregional mobility Keynesian Kmenta model labour demand labour force labour productivity labour supply Latin cantons males ment multicollinearity neoclassical nomic number of unemployed Obwalden OECD OFIAMT panel data participation rates period ployment possible recession regional characteristics regional differences regional labour markets regional policy regional unemployment differences regional unemployment rates regression secondary sector service sector significant structure supply of labour Swiss labour market Table tertiary sector Ticino tion total employment unem unemployment disparities unemployment types Vaud wage rate
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