Comparative Advantages, Job Destruction and the Regional Pattern of Polish Unemployment

Newell, A. and Pastore, F. and Socha, M. (2002) Comparative Advantages, Job Destruction and the Regional Pattern of Polish Unemployment. Acta Oeconomica, 52 (2). pp. 187-204. ISSN 0001-6373

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Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between industrial restructuring and regional unemployment in Poland. Poland's regional unemployment broke out of nothing at the beginning of the 1990s decade. Since then, it has remained remarkably unchanged over the decade for a variety of factors, such as the gradual restructuring process, labour supply rigidities and technological differences. The role of each of these factors is assessed within the framework of hazard functions applied to the inflow to unemployment from a job, computed using Polish Labour Force Survey data. When voivodships are groupedaccording to their unemployment rate it can be seen that low unemployment voivodships form a heterogeneous group, including both rural and urban areas. Applying a new method of analysis of the labour market effects of trade integration, the paper reveals circumstantial evidence on how Poland's international comparative advantages in labour-intensive manufacturing combine with the economic advantages of urbanised regions to play a significant role in shaping the regional distribution of Poland's unemployment.

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