; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low participation rates, high and persistent informality, and, in some cases …, open unemployment. Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region … examination of the labor market trends in the region in recent decades and assesses the role that labor demand and labor supply …

, the resulting estimates, labor productivity, and the characteristics of informal sector production units. …

In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from … unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …

Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within … particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment … provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on …

This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local … labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the … labor markets. The estimates show a statistically significant, but weak, negative connection between the concentration of …

,500 follow-up interviews were conducted in early 1997 by employees of local labor offices with persons in self …, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were …. Among subgroups, self- employment appeared to be more effective in high unemployment areas in Hungary, among females in …

markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of … active labor programs (ALPs). Follow-up surveys of participants in retraining, public works, wage subsidies, self …

This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local … labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the … labor markets. The estimates show a statistically significant, but weak, negative connection between the concentration of …