across sectors and occupations. Such low mobility can be explained by low returns to job changes as well as by market … generosity of unemployment benefits will not significantly boost outflows from the unemployment state. These findings support … explanations for low mobility in transitional economies, which are based on informational failures, and high costs of moving from …

A common explanation of low unemployment rates in the Czech Republic (CR) is the stance of active labour market … unemployment into employment. …

coexistence of strict employment security regulations, significant job-to-job shifts and high long-term unemployment rates in …

of Transition (OST) literature. In particular, it has involved stagnant unemployment pools, large flows to inactivity and … strikingly low workers' mobility especially when account is made of the changes occurring in the structure of employment by …

This paper investigates the border between formal employment, shadow employment, and unemployment in an equilibrium … employment is correlated with unemployment, and it is tolerated because the repression of shadow activity increases unemployment … the model. The paper suggests also that policies aimed at reducing the shadow economy are likely to increase unemployment. …

This Paper studies the border between shadow employment and unemployment. It argues that the two macroeconomic … the labour market trade-off implied by ‘shadow reducing policies’, it suggests that economies with low unemployment … perform original empirical work on the border between employment, unemployment and inactivity, and we find that Italian shadow …