least a 30% increase in monthly outflows out of unemployment into jobs. While aggregate ALMPs are positively associated with …This paper investigates the impact of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia over the … Slovakia by more than two-thirds in 1993 - contributed to the divergence in labour market outcomes in the two countries. All …

labour markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe. It argues that a hasty ‘return to Europe’ with … respect to labour market policies may not be in the best interests of these economies, and may actually impede an efficient …

A common explanation of low unemployment rates in the Czech Republic (CR) is the stance of active labour market … unemployment into employment. … quarterly data from employment office districts, we estimate the effects of ALMPs on the job matching process in the CR. In so …

's model of equilibrium unemployment highlights the dynamics of labour markets as an important factor in the transformation …, and labour market institutions will determine the long-run unemployment rate. A brief survey of institutions reveals …This paper surveys the emerging labour markets of the transforming economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Pissarides …

lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …

A matching function approach is applied to unemployment exit data from a panel of Eastern German labour office …, and can account for at least three-quarters of the variance of exits from unemployment. In contrast, the Eastern German … <MI>per se<D>. When the effects of special labour market measures introduced since monetary union are accounted for …