"The paper tests three hypotheses about the causes of unemployment in the Central-East European transition economies … and in a benchmark market economy (Western part of Germany). The first hypothesis (H1) is that unemployment is caused by … inefficient matching. Hypothesis 2 (H2) is that unemployment is caused by low demand. Hypothesis 3 (H3) is that restructuring is …

has the weakest employment track record in Europe: the unemployment rate has reached 48 percent and the employment rate is …,760, the country remains one of the poorest in Europe. The end of the conflict, output was growing at double-digit rates … other countries in Southeast Europe have been growing faster, so the income gap has widened. Kosovo's economy would need to …