approach is employed in order to investigate the asymmetric nature of the relationship between sectoral employment and … unemployment. Significant asymmetries emerge. Lilien's dispersion index is significant only for relatively high levels of … unemployment and becomes insignificant for low levels suggesting that reallocation affects unemployment only when the latter is …

public sector units in 1991. Since then, per capita output has increased significantly, while the overall unemployment rate … unemployment remains stubbornly high, an overwhelming proportion of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector, and …

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …

In the early 2000s, Poland’s unemployment rate reached 20%. That is now a distant memory, as employment has increased … noticeably and the unemployment rate has dropped to 5%. However, most of the net job creation has consisted of temporary jobs …