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 …

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 …

Labour markets in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) will be a key vehicle for the expression and reallocation of skills … and talents in the transformation process. To a large extent, the emergence of unemployment is an indicator of this … restructuring and reallocation. This paper surveys some of the issues involved in the rise of CEE unemployment as well as the policy …

Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in … additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In …

France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States - which any theory of unemployment ought to explain. The … business cycles. Key results are: flows into and out of unemployment are countercyclical; these flows move tightly together …, over both the cycle and the long run; the bulk of exits from unemployment actually represent job findings rather than exits …

frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance … volatility and persistence of vacancies and unemployment. …