other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force … present a mixed picture of social dislocation and improved reallocation. -- unemployment ; sectoral shifts ; reallocation …

This study poses the question about whether labour market institutions can explain unemployment rates in the ten new … European Union member states. In five out of the ten new member states, unemployment rates lie above the average in the 15 … institutions in the acceding countries are less rigid than in the EU-15. Moreover, labour market institutions explain only a minor …