In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from … unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …

We investigate the effect of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) rules in Hungary on the outflow rate from the UI … of UI entitlement. Hazards of exits to labour market programmes do rise just before UI expiry. The results suggest the … unemployed in Hungary to be fairly inelastic to changes in UI benefits. …

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 …

private sector. The transition is shown to be costly in that it entails unemployment and a deterioration of the fiscal balance …

labour market using a segmentation model. Risk averse workers are differentiated according to their productivity. They face a … firm, contract on the spot labour market, and concentrate in the best performing firms. The model provides a possible …