evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from … unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the …

European transition economy, yet one might have expected the east German transition to have been the most successful. I seek … insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …

In this paper we analyse job flows in five transition countries: Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Using … comparable firm level data over the years 1993-1997, we find that in early transition job destruction dominates job creation …, while the latter is picking up as the country enters into a mature stage of transition. Gross job reallocation rates in the …

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …

-industrial sector. The interaction of investment with unemployment creates a channel for potentially divergent long-run outcomes. If the …