We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from … market economy in Poland. These individual experiences are matched with outcomes observed in the survey about 20 years later … to examine their correlation with unemployment at the time of the transition. We find that becoming unemployed in the …

are important advantages of focusing on a broader set of labor market outcomes, and not only on the unemployment rate …

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. -- Unemployment Models …

performance of TEs, including the policy-relevant issue of complementarity of institutions. -- labor markets ; unemployment …