local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be …

Since the beginning of transition, interregional disparities in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) have …

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 …

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 …

and flows between employment and unemployment. It finds that the hike significantly increased labor costs and reduced …

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

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …

This paper deals with labour mobility in Georgia during economic transition. We use quarterly 1998-99 panel data to … examine mobility across six labour market statuses (inactivity, unemployment, firmal wage employment, infirmal wage employment … preferred to infirmal employment. Unemployment is largely a queuing device for individuals with higher education waiting for …

regional unemployment discourages women from entering the labor market. Those who are willing to work find it easier to do so … if living in regions with low regional unemployment rates, short distances to the next agglomeration, and – for mothers …