We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind …

We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind …

evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …

evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …

regions is used. We find that gross job destruction dominates job creation, but the latter is picking up as transition …

unemployed in the outflow from unemployment, (3) a matching process with strongly increasing returns to scale throughout (rather … than only in parts of) the transition period, and (4) ability to keep the long term unemployed at relatively low levels ….Using the framework of matching functions we find that in many years the usual Cobb-Douglas specification and the hypothesis of …

The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and … Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neoclassical … unanswered of how unemployment differences arise in the first place. Economic transition provides an excellent testing ground to …