We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from … to examine their correlation with unemployment at the time of the transition. We find that becoming unemployed in the … confirm the causal effect of unemployment on income and house ownership 20 years later, but find no evidence for a long …

are important advantages of focusing on a broader set of labor market outcomes, and not only on the unemployment rate …

groups. If the rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values … during the transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios unemployment differentials are basically determined by the … unemployment benefits and provision of direct support to the employers of low-productivity workers. -- Unemployment Models …

the unemployment rate, which until now has been the main approach in the empirical literature. -- Labor market … institutions ; unemployment ; transition economies …

performance of TEs, including the policy-relevant issue of complementarity of institutions. -- labor markets ; unemployment …