other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …

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 …

We develop a growth model with unemployment due to imperfections in the labor market. In this model, wage inertia and …

Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …

Health Survey data from ten countries. We find that periods of relative high unemployment are associated with lower fertility … postpone and even reduce childbearing in response to downturns. This behavior is mainly associated to increasing unemployment … periods of unemployment may be good to have children because opportunity costs are lower, maternity is reduced or postponed …

impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …