We examine the role of unemployment inflows and outflows in contributing to unemployment cyclicality in Czechia and Poland, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, and a three-state model of unemployment variance decomposition. We find that the labour...

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We calculate production functions for the key productive sectors of the Czech economy (agriculture, industry, etc.), exploring the growth-accounting approach and decomposition of total factor productivity (TFP) growth. We establish that the growth in real value added over the period 1996-2005...

Using panel data for selected national economies, we estimate relative price changes stemming from fluctuations in sectoral productivity. Subsequently, we calculate the cross-country CPI-inflation differentials implied by sectorally unbalanced productivity growth, taking into account...