Labour Market Flows and Unemployment Duration in Transition Countries: Evidence from Bulgarian and Polish Micro-data.

One of the most striking characteristics of the transition process in central and eastern European countries is the labour market segmentation: certain social groups as the youth, unskilled workers and women face a high risk of unemployment, but joblesness also varies significantly across the local labour markets. This paper sheds some lights in these regional labour market disparities in transition countries by analysing individual records of people registered at the labour offices of 2 polish regions and 2 bulgarian regions over the period 1990-1993.