What Drives the Unemployment Rate in Poland

Local unemployment in Poland

High unemployment continues to bedevil Poland, although the national picture masks striking spatial differences that this paper seeks to explain using a panel data set for the country’s NUTS 4 level powiats. Given the economy’s somewhat peculiar configuration throughout its communist epoch, emphasis is placed on rural-urban differences. Finding a random effects estimator to be most appropriate ...

Investigating the Relationship between Unemployment Rate and Economic Growth Rate in Iran and Selected Countries

Abstract. According to a rule known as the Okan Law, for one percent decrease (increase) in the unemployment rate, the economic growth rate will increase (decrease) by approximately 0.3 percent. In other words, there is a negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the economic growth rate. This study examines the establishment of this relationship. Contrary to expectations, the rel...

What Drives the Vacancy Rate for Information Technology Workers?

Heterogeneous Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Mexico: What Drives It?

This paper focuses on the pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations into prices of final goods and services, and examines whether contrasting pass-through rates are associated with regionaland/or product-specific characteristics. Using CPI microdata, we estimate industry-specific rates of pass-through across regions in Mexico. By looking at within country price responses, this study alleviates...

Geographically Weighted Regression in the Analysis of Unemployment in Poland

The main aim of this paper is an application of Geographically Weighted Regression (which enables the identification of the variability of regression coefficients in the geographical space) in the analysis of unemployment in Poland 2015. The study is conducted using 2015 statistical data for 380 districts (LAU 1) in Poland. The research results show that the determinants of unemployment are div...