UNEMPLOYMENT IN REGIONAL LABOR MARKETS: USING STRUCTURAL THEORIES TO UNDERSTAND LOCAL JOBLESS RATES IN WEST VIRGINIA.(Statistical Data Included) From: Industrial and Labor Relations Review | Date: April 1, 2001| Author: WEILER, STEPHAN | COPYRIGHT 2001 Cornell University, ILR Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

STEPHAN WEILER [*]

The author uses a range of structural labor market models to understand differing regional jobless rates in a state affected by pockets of structural unemployment. Four theories of regional structural unemployment are presented, and their hypotheses are statistically evaluated using West Virginia county panel data. The author then presents case study evidence to compare these statistical results with the realities of the county labor markets. Both type...