This paper analyzes convergence of unemployment rates in Poland at NUTS4 level by testing nonlinear convergence … contribute to this phenomenon. There are some circumstances under which unemployment convergence should be more awaited than in …

This Report is a third in the series Employment in Poland. It consists of four Parts, devoted to empirical analysis of … employment on Polish labor market, determinants of wages and wage inequalities in Poland; effectiveness of ALMP in Poland … demand shocks) were of foremost importance to unemployment and employment fluctuations in the region. At the same time, we …

and increase in unemployment levels in Europe, which came about in Poland after the year 2000, are due to the …This book constitutes a follow-up and extension of Employment in Poland 2005. In this issue we analyse the influence of …-2005, and we assess to what extent these disturbances are responsible for different dynamics of unemployment and employment …

-liberal argument that strictness of employment protection hurts labour through increased long-term and youth unemployment rates. While … it finds no empirical basis for this orthodox standpoint it observes that long-term unemployment dampens aggregate … production which in turn aggravates unemployment problem. …

and grant less protection to labourers. It also supports the proposition that the problem of unemployment is more acute in … regulation and unemployment rate. Hence, we conclude that the explanation of more acute unemployment problem in France and …

Examining the structure of long-term unemployment first reveals a number of effects, Le. the cohort effect, the … unemployment recurrence index is then constructed. The unemployment inflow rate is shown, rounding off the previous data which only … gave the unemployment outflow rate …

This paper considers how the different varieties of capitalism affect the rate of long-term unemployment. The liberal … market variety, where employment protection is the lowest, presents lower rates of long-term unemployment than the … continental European, or the Mediterranean varieties. In the latter both employment protection and long-term unemployment are the …

changes in employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits and active labour market policies. Data on the strictness … insiders. Although gross unemployment replacement rates suggest that unemployment benefits have become more generous, net …