Unemployment in East and West Europe

Labour Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 681-694

  Münich, Daniel ^a   Svejnar, Jan ^a,b  

^a CERGE EI   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beveridge curve; Central Europe; Economic transition; Histeresis; Labor turnover; Unemployment; Vacancies

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547960951     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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