Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 12/2008

Unemployment and Unemployment Protection in Transition

Vera Brusentsev, Wayne Vroman

April 2008

Urban Institute

Abstract

This paper examines developments in aggregate income and the labor market of the 28 countries from Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (CEE-FSU) in the period from 1990 to 2006. Income, employment, unemployment and labor market support services are examined in tabulations and time series regressions. Comparisons are made with developments in major countries from other regions of the world.