What Drives the Unemployment Rate in Poland

Strawinski, Pawel

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1310170

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What Drives the Unemployment Rate in Poland

45 Pages Posted: 2 Dec 2008

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Pawel Strawinski

University of Warsaw, Department of Economics

Date Written: November 5, 2008

Abstract

This paper studies flows on the labour market in Poland in 1995-2008. We show that the main driving force behind the unemployment rate is the behaviour of outflow to employment. Moreover, the flows that involve the state of inactivity constitute for a large share of total flows. They seem to be an idiosyncratic phenomenon of Polish labour market. In addition the inflow to employment is found to be procyclical, while the separation rate is acyclical.

Keywords: unemployment, job finding, worker flows

JEL Classification: J63, J64

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Strawinski, Pawel, What Drives the Unemployment Rate in Poland (November 5, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1310170 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1310170