Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and weexplore potential explanations for this...

The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15percentage points, with roughly constant inflation. This change has been more pronouncedthan elsewhere...