We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over … creation, by contrast, has not picked up in regions of high unemployment. Labour mobility also remains very limited in size … asymmetries are necessary to increase worker mobility and to integrate better national labour markets …

data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … process. Since geographic mobility can importantly compensate for regional shocks and it is considered as one of the ways to …

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria … and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction … dominates job creation, while the latter is picking up as the country enters into a mature stage of transition. Gross job …

In this paper we document and analyze gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria … and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction … dominates job creation, while the latter is picking up as the country enters into a mature stage of transition. Gross job …