interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamic panel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation, union density …

One potential impact of the looming EU accession of Central European economies is unemployment hysteresis working … through long-term unemployment (LTU). In this paper, we explore the mechanisms of LTU by providing a detailed description of …

indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather … low. High wages appear to encourage, and, similarly, high unemployment tends to discourage, overall migration - inbound … the impact of unemployment and wages on net migration is statistically significant, it is economically very small. Finally …

Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates grew from zero to double digits … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women’s lower probability …