present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

Shimer and Hall point out how new measurements of the job finding probability explain unemployment volatility significantly …

This paper examines the causes of observed increase in the duration of unemployment relative to the unemployment rate … the change in the structure of unemployment duration. In particular, we examine how much of the observed change can be … unemployment insurance and the change in union affiliation. We show that changes in the composition of the labor force and …

capital, may affect European unemployment in two, mutually enforcing, ways. Firstly the existence of minimum non …. Unemployment and minimum living costs are also increased by an increase in population, by an increase in the relative productivity …

Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …