Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies.

Autor/inn/en	Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Regionale Arbeitslosigkeit und Humankapital in Übergangsökonomien.
Quelle	Bonn (2007), 41 S.; 360 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 3176
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Regionale Disparität; Regionale Mobilität; Mobilität; Transformation; Humankapital; Kapital; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Arbeitslosenquote; Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitsmobilität; Qualifikationsstruktur; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; Internationaler Vergleich; Arbeitspapier; Regionalverteilung; Ursache; Bulgarien; Osteuropa; Tschechische Republik; Ukraine; Ungarn
Abstract	"Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for this outcome through related capital and labor mobility patterns. The evidence suggests that regions with high inherited skill endowments attract skilled workers as well as FDI. This mobility pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of complementarities in skill and capital. Nevertheless, we find no supporting evidence of human capital wage spillovers implied by the complementarities story. Unemployment of the least-skilled workers appears lower in areas with a higher share of college-educated labor and future research is needed to see if this finding as well as the observed migration pattern arise from different adjustments to regional shocks by education level brought about in part by Central European labor-market institutions, such as guaranteed welfare income raising effective minimum wages." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2001 bis 2003. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2008/2