Labour market flexibility and regional unemployment rate dynamics: Spain 1980 - 1995 This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces of their disparities. The Spanish eco... R Bande,M Karanassou - Institute for the Study of ...
UK social securitypartnership dissolutionUnemployed and low-income couples entitled to means-tested benefits are known to have higher rates of separation and divorce than couples in which one or both partners are in regular, paid work. However, how and why unemployment and benefit receipt increases ...
Gaps in regional employment have widened in recent years, with rates that are higher than 10 percentage points in the southwest compared to the northeast of England. Other policies should focus on the reduction of these regional gaps. The proposed econometric models for explaining the unemployment ...
and renewable energy. Nevada also offers incentives for small businesses, including grants and tax abatements aimed at driving innovation and growth. Entrepreneurs benefit from the state’s vibrant business community and access to resources like startup incubators and networking opportunities. ...
(Bollini and Siem1995; Lordan and Johnston2012). Ethnic minorities are also disadvantaged in the UK labour market despite Equal Opportunity legislation aimed at mitigating these disadvantages. Unemployment rates for ethnic minorities, for instance, have been around double that of Whites for over 50 ...
But even over a period of 20 years, there is strong persistence in relative unemployment rates at local area levels in both countries, and especially the United Kingdom. This result extends to counties and local authority areas within individual states and regions. Local areas with high (low) ...
Thomas said “political and economic uncertainty” and “rapid and significant” changes in mortgage rates had damped homebuyer confidence and reduced the affordability of homes. The group said the benefit of underlying house price inflation was “largely offset” by rising building costs. This combin...
This potential change would reverse the rate-hiking cycle that has marked the post-lockdown years, with significant implications for investors, not least for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, which invest heavily in government bonds – the performance of which is linked to the ...
The Company has developed models that include multiple economic scenarios that consider the variability and uncertainty in expected losses including factors such as GDP growth rates, unemployment rates and commercial real estate property prices, provided by the economists in Citi's Global Country Risk ...
01 Aug 2024Gregory Daco UK economy’s growth to accelerate in 2025 as barriers fall The EY ITEM Club Spring 2024 Forecast for the UK economy, including mortgage rates, interest rates, GDP, inflation, house prices and unemployment. 22 Apr 2024Rob Joyce ...