strong assumption for any country but it sounds especially strong and hardly plausible for developing and transition …

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 …

-generous non-employment benefit schemes, conditions were created for having stagnant unemployment pools throughout the transition …Ten years after the start of transition, there are many puzzles we still have to live with. Why did all countries … to a more efficient economic system? Why were (and still are) unemployment pools of these countries so desperately …

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish …