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Unemployment in East and West Europe

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  • Münich, Daniel

    () (Charles University, Prague)

  • Svejnar, Jan

    () (Columbia University)

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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 economies with an otherwise similar and spatially close market economy is useful because it enables us to identify the main differences and similarities in the evolution of the key variables, and thus draw conclusions as to whether different or similar factors cause high unemployment.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2798.

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Length: 26 pages
Date of creation: May 2007
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Publication status: published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 681-694
Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp2798

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Keywords: transition; communism; unemployment; labor;

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Cited by:
  1. Alena Bicáková & Jiri Slacalek & Michal Slavík, 2008. "Labor supply after transition. Evidence from the Czech Republic," Working Paper Series 887, European Central Bank.
  2. Michal Franta, 2008. "Time Aggregation Bias in Discrete Time Models of Aggregate Duration Data," Working Papers 2008/10, Czech National Bank, Research Department.
  3. Stepan Jurajda & Katherine Terrell, 2007. "Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp345, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economic Institute, Prague.
  4. Joanna Tyrowicz & Tomasz Jeruzalski, 2013. "(In)Efficiency of matching: the case of a post-transition economy," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 255-275, May.

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