present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

The fall in employment and the increase in unemployment rates in Italy in 2009 were fairly modest, given the sharp drop …, the rise in the unemployment rate has been curbed by extensive recourse to temporary income support schemes to reduce …

Measures aimed at reducing the tax burden on labour have been advocated to alleviate the EU unemployment problem. Most … of the analyses document a relationship between the unemployment rate and the tax burden on labour. Hence, it is not … possible to discern whether the effect on unemployment derives from labour demand, labour supply or through the wage formation …

associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …

distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …