Regional Unemployment and Industrial Restructuring in Poland

Andrew Newell and Francesco Pastore

No 194, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: unemployment; Industrial restructuring; Polish transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J63 P23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2000-08
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Published - published in: Eastern European Economics, 2006, 44 (3), 5-28

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