This paper provides a comprehensive account of the regulations governing the systems of unemployment support and social … characterizes the Polish force in terms of the incidence and duration of unemployment. A final aspect of our empirical analysis …

shocks were large and widespread, and were particularly hard on older workers and women. Unemployment reached double digits …

to 1990, both with respect to employment and unemployment measures. However, with the advent of the deep recession in …

unemployment. In practice, contributions from the regulated sector are more persistent and erratic. The contribution of the …

We analyse the unemployment benefit regime change that occurred in Poland in December 1991 using data from the Polish … Labour Force Survey. Before December 1991, the entitlement period to unemployment benefits was unlimited. Thereafter, it was … find that the regime change did not have a significant effect on the duration of unemployment. The results thus give …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …

Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates grew from zero to double digits … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women’s lower probability …