administrative records from the unemployment register of the Hungarian National Labour Centre. We estimate parametric duration models …

groups. If the rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values … during the transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios unemployment differentials are basically determined by the … unemployment benefits and provision of direct support to the employers of low-productivity workers. …

Migration is, in fact, regional mobility, movement from one geographical region to an other one. Various considerations … suppose, there was a switch between unemployment and foreign labour, people in disadvantages labour market position or those … who became unemployed search for foreign labour opportunity. Others underline the very limited internal labour mobility …