Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21037 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 194
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that higher unemployment regions are those experiencing greater change in industrial structure. We also find high unemployment regions are those with higher inflow rates to unemployment rather than longer spells of unemployment. These findings suggest that regional unemployment varies importantly with job destruction in Poland. Econometric analysis of the determinants of employment to unemployment flows reinforces this impression. We use our estimates to assess the extent to which regional unemployment variation is due to economic restructuring. We show that this is cannot be done unambiguously and offer reasons why many previous attempts to separate out the effects of restructuring on unemployment have been unsuccessful
Subjects: 
Industrial restructuring
unemployment
Polish transition
JEL: 
J63
P23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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