In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak … exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech Republic as compared to Slovakia and the other Central and East European economies … has been brought about principally by (1) a rapid increase in vacancies along with unemployment, resulting in a balanced …

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 …

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 …

unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We … first investigate the fluctuations in steady state unemployment, and then in current unemployment in order to take into … account the unemployment deviations from equilibrium. Our results show the dominant role of the job finding rate in accounting …