Autori: Boeri, Tito, Scarpetta, Stefano
Titolo: Regional dimensions of unemployment in central and eastern Europe and social barriers to restructuring
Periodico: European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 1995 - Fascicolo: 17 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 51

Major regional unemployment differentials emerged in central and eastern Europe immediately after the start of transition, mainly as a result of the concentration of job losses in agricultural regions and areas dominated by heavy industry. Based on regional-level data on 6 central and eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovak Republic), in this paper, we show that a distinguishing feature of the dynamics of regional disparities in transition countries is in the apparent feedback from widening unemployment differentials to the variance of regional employment declines. While in flexible labour markets like the US, regional differences in employment growth are persistent and regional unemployment differentials are reduced by interregional labour mobility, in central and eastern Europe the regional dispersion of employment reductions displays much less persistence than the dispersion of unemployment rates.




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