the country's market transition. I show that the 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family …

public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a …

, which leads to expectation of reversal. -- Unemployment ; flexibility ; temporary contracts ; unemployment duration … ; unemployment recurrence ; on the job search ; labor force composition …

. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …

This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …

Theoretical reasoning justifies different signs of the relationship between the local variation in unemployment rates … positively related to the unemployment rate. In addition, we study the determinants of labour turnover across NUTS1 and NUTS2 … conclusion is robust to the use of different control variables. -- regional unemployment ; labour turnover ; labour reallocation …

flows in the period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a …

We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind …