active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment …