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Local Labour Market Dynamics in the Czech and Slovak Republics

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  • Peter Huber
  • Andreas Worgotter

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This paper addresses the issue whether the differences in national unemployment rates between the Czech and Slovak Republics are in part associated with different responses of regional labor markets. We attempt to assess the relative importance of regional and national shocks in explaining regional unemployment rates in the two countries, by applying a simple VAR model on monthly unemployment rate data. We find that in average Czech regional labor markets are subject to smaller region specific shocks than Slovak regional labor markets. In particular over the period of one year region specific shocks are significantly less important in the Czech Republic than in the Slovak Republic. In Czech regions national shocks tend to be more persistent, while in the Slovak Republic regional shocks have higher persistence. These findings seem to suggest that due to the geography of the country labor markets in the Slovak Republic are regionally more segregated than in the Czech Republic.

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  • Peter Huber & Andreas Worgotter, 1997. "Local Labour Market Dynamics in the Czech and Slovak Republics," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 121, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
    • Handle: RePEc:wdi:papers:1997-121
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    1. Ansgar Belke & Martin Hebler, 2000. "EU enlargement and labour markets in the CEECs," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 35(5), pages 219-230, September.
    2. Peter Huber, 2007. "Regional Labour Market Developments in Transition: A Survey of the Empirical Literature," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 4(2), pages 263-298, September.
    3. Blinova Tatiana & Rusanovsky Victor, 2002. "Economic Policy, Industrial Structure, and Unemployment in Russia's Regions," EERC Working Paper Series 01-06e, EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS.
    4. Blinova, Tatiana, 1999. "Transition Economy and Regional Differentiation at the Russian Agrarian Labor Market," ERSA conference papers ersa99pa328, European Regional Science Association.
    5. Peter Huber & Gerhard Palme, 2000. "Teilprojekt 3: Regionalwirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den MOEL," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 19586.
    6. Blinova, Tatiana V., 2002. "Rural Development and Unemployment Reduction," 2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain 24821, European Association of Agricultural Economists.

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