relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

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 …