TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Münich, Daniel
AU  - Svejnar, Jan
        TI  - Unemployment in East and West Europe
        PY  - 2007/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2798
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2798
        AB  - In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition economies with an otherwise similar and spatially close market economy is useful because it enables us to identify the main differences and similarities in the evolution of the key variables, and thus draw conclusions as to whether different or similar factors cause high unemployment.
        KW  - transition
KW  - communism
KW  - unemployment
KW  - labor
        ER  -