Skill Mismatch and Regional Unemployment in Poland

Andrew Newell

Chapter 9 in The European Labour Market. Regional Dimensions, 2006, pp 187-202 from AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro

Abstract: This paper investigates the extent to which the patterns of regional unemployment in Poland since the early 1990s can be explained by regional imbalances in the supply and demand for skilled labour. Indeed, massive changes in the relative demand for skilled labour are found to have taken place over this period, and by no means uniformly across Polish regions. Lower-skilled regional populations tend to generate higher rates of unemployment. Moreover, when controlling for population skill levels, higher levels of relative demand for skilled workers raise a region’s rate of unemployment. Using a theoretical model in which regional labour supply mobility and relative wage flexibility are limited, the author interprets these findings as equilibrium and mismatch phenomena. They account for about half of the regional variation in Polish rates of unemployment.

Keywords: Skill Mismatch; Regional Unemployment; Labour Turnover; Labour Reallocation; Structural Change, Transition from Plan to Market, Poland. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 J63 P25 P52 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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