This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …

This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …

Theoretical reasoning justifies different signs of the relationship between the local variation in unemployment rates … positively related to the unemployment rate. In addition, we study the determinants of labour turnover across NUTS1 and NUTS2 …

and flows between employment and unemployment. It finds that the hike significantly increased labor costs and reduced …

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …

regional unemployment discourages women from entering the labor market. Those who are willing to work find it easier to do so … if living in regions with low regional unemployment rates, short distances to the next agglomeration, and – for mothers …

public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a …

The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional … wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the …

specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes … unemployment dynamics. By contrast, highly diversified areas turn out to be characterized by better labour market performances. …