to facilitate hiring dynamics and to minimise long-term unemployment and scarring risks among vulnerable groups who have …

, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …

This paper deals with trends and cycles of unemployment and labour-force participation. Empirical evidence on both … trends and cyclical movements in unemployment and participation is presented. Some of the mechanisms behind the observed … assessment of labour market slack of the observed interplay between unemployment and participation are discussed. The paper ends …

, including unemployment-related and disability schemes. Pooled cross-country time-series regressions show that increased …

been met by in–flows of cross–border workers and, to a lesser extent, immigration. Unemployment has remained low compared …

spanning the period 1996 to 2004. The effects of changes in the minimum wage on unemployment, formal-sector employment and the …

Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less … which produced the extreme levels of unemployment, but more could have been done to unwind those legacies and other policies … implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …

major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …

Unemployment has emerged as one of the most pressing economic concerns in the majority of OECD countries. However …, experiences differ across countries as regards the level, volatility and composition of unemployment. Nevertheless, a common … with much higher levels of unemployment than used to be the case two decades ago. Countries seem to differ in the extent to …