Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …

Central and Southern Europe? This is the question addressed in this paper. Youth unemployment has approached or exceeded 20 …

disposal is consistent with the official LFS youth unemployment rate increased by a reasonable estimate of the number of …

outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population ratios fell, particularly among males; unemployment and welfare use …

Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well as acute and chronic physical health. Unemployment …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …