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 -