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TY - UNPB
T1 - Local unemployment in Poland
AU - Herbst, J
AU - Ingham, H
AU - Ingham, M
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - 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 for the observations in question, the results indicate that increases in foreign capital, investment and the concentration of agriculture are associated with lower unemployment while its opposite is characteristic, all else equal, of more rural areas and those placing greater reliance on domestic enterprise.
AB - 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 for the observations in question, the results indicate that increases in foreign capital, investment and the concentration of agriculture are associated with lower unemployment while its opposite is characteristic, all else equal, of more rural areas and those placing greater reliance on domestic enterprise.
KW - Regional unemployment
KW - agriculture
KW - rurality
KW - industrial mix
KW - migration.
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Economics Working Paper Series
BT - Local unemployment in Poland
PB - The Department of Economics
CY - Lancaster University
ER -