relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

gender gaps in unemployment rates. Although there are some countries in which there is essentially no gender gap in … unemployment, there are others in which the female unemployment rate is substantially above the male. Although it is easy to give … show that, in countries where there is a large gender gap in unemployment rates, there is a gender gap in both flows from …

We use spatial regression discontinuity analysis to test whether the historical partition of Poland among three empires …—Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Prussia—has a persistent effect on political outcomes in contemporary Poland and to examine the channels …

in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective monthly calendar information on the labour force state and Active …: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …

constructed for revenue and expenditure. They show that the rising number of social benefit earners (pensions, unemployment) is …

Poland has tackled its economic problems with courage and, thus far, success. Hyperinflation has ceased, the well … encouraged by removing all limits to the repatriation of profit. To prevent unemployment persisting even after demand recovers …, unemployment benefits could be replaced after one year by paid temporary employment on public works.Inflation still needs to be …