, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …

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 …

German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …

The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized …-based discrimination by employers at the point of screening in Tunisia. The study sent out 1,571 fictitious and substantially identical … men. No discrimination against or in favor of women is found in engineering, whereas in marketing and finance, women were …

, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We … other programmes. Effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates are …