institutional shocks from transition to a market economy, or is it the result of high labour market rigidities, or rather a syndrome … hypothesis holds 15 years after transition has started, we analyze the unemploymentgrowth dynamics in the eight new member … results suggest to declare the transition of labour markets as completed; unemployment responds to output and not to a …

Does migration serve as an effective channel of regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks in transition economies? If … flows on the other. Yet, the evidence from transition economies indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter … wages on net migration flows is economically insignificant and the overall level of migration has fallen during transition. …

During transition, maintaining employment and providing a social safety net for the unemployed are important to social …

The adjustment of labour markets during transition has been quite different from that anticipated by the Optimal Speed … of Transition (OST) literature. In particular, it has involved stagnant unemployment pools, large flows to inactivity and … the alternative between a big-bang strategy and a gradual transition process. This amounts to assuming that governments …

, migration flows have actually been declining in the course of transition, even as inter-regional disparities have been rising. …