Types of Microregions, Dispersion of Unemployment, and Local Employment Development in Hungary

Fazekas, Károly

doi:10.1080/00128775.1996.11648591

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“…Thus for most of the candidate countries to the European Union correlations between privatization and employment growth are ambiguous. Scarpetta (1995) finds ambiguous results concerning the impact of the private sector share on unemployment levels, while Fazekas (1996) finds that an index of entrepreneurial capacity 10 in a region reduces unemployment. Finally, Sibley and Walsh (2002) find that in Poland regions deemed to be further advanced in transition are also regions with higher internal regional disparities.…”

Section: Differences In Starting Conditions and Access To Market Potential Are The Most Important Causes For Divergencementioning

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Regional Labor Market Developments In Transition

Huber¹

2006

Policy Research Working Papers

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We analyze regional labor market disparities in transition by presenting some data and summarizing existing literature. We find that large and persistent regional labor market disparities developed in virtually all transition countries and that there is some evidence of polarization. Differences in starting conditions and market access seem to be the major reasons for regional divergence in transition. Furthermore, regional wages are only slightly more flexible than in many EU labor markets, inter-regional migration is low and capital seems to move towards high wage and low unemployment urban centers rather than to the most backward regions. Policy should thus take a long-run perspective on the existing regional disparities, focus on removing barriers to mobility, review existing institutions for implementing regional policy and aim at a close co-ordination of regional and labor market policy instruments.

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Section: Differences In Starting Conditions and Access To Market Potential Are The Most Important Causes For Divergencementioning

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Regional Labor Market Developments In Transition

Huber¹

2006

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“…High rank stability refers to long-term, hard-to-change explanatory factors behind the successes and failures of the micro-regions. (Ábrahám and Kertesi 1998, Fazekas 1996 registered unemployment rates could be calculated from the settlement level Unemployment Register Data Base of the National Employment Office. Figure 2 shows the Kernel density of relative employment rates of micro-regions in 1990 and 2001.…”

Section: Increasing Spatial Differences Polarisation and The Core-periphery Division Of The Local Labour Markets In Hungarymentioning

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Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on the Performance of Local Labour Markets - The Case of Hungary

Fazekas

2003

SSRN Journal

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Post transitional labour markets of the CEE countries have been characterised by marked regional differences. Since labour market differences were mainly generated by demand side factors the paper will concentrate on the spatial pattern of job creation determined mostly by the allocation decisions of foreign investors. Thus, the success or failure of local economies or local labour markets were largely determined by the attractiveness of the individual regions towards FDI. Posttransitional winners of local labour markets can boast of high doses of FDI inflows, while high unemployment regions have been suffering a persistent lack of outside investments. Our analysis intends to identify the winners and losers of transitional local labour markets and to calculate the possible effects of EU-accession on local labour markets in Hungary. Based on micro regional data sets the paper describes the regional distribution of foreign and domestic employment. The first section of the paper discusses the time path of regional labour market differences in Hungary between 1990Hungary between -2001 and identifies the winners and losers of transition. The second chapter analyses the spatial distribution of FDI and domestic firm's employment and identifies the most important explanatory factors of their regional distribution.

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“…Because of these spatial spillovers, in CEE countries there has been a divergence in regional economic performance that was evident both before and after the financial crisis, suggesting important regional differences in the response to shocks. Shortly after the start of the transition, regional disparities in income and employment had already became increasingly evident ( Petrakos, 1996 , Petrakos, 2001 ) due to the inability of some regions to adapt to the shock of transition to a market economy ( Fazekas, 1996 ) in large part because of their structural characteristics ( Ezcurra & Pascual, 2007 ; Monastiriotis, Kallioras, & Petrakos, 2017 ). Moreover, throughout the past twenty years, higher productivity, per capita GDP and population growth have characterized CEE's capital cities and the regions surrounding them ( Babecký & Komárek, 2020 ; Neumann, Budde, & Ehlert, 2014 ).…”

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