, which is among the highest in the OECD. The paper argues that policies should continue to tackle the high inactivity of … early stage. For the long-term unemployed, policies should be further strengthened by adjusting the unemployment benefit and …

dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …

In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …

inactivity traps inherent in the Polish personal transfer system, while improving the efficiency and targeting of social …

disaggregate unemployment and in the cross-sectional differences across individuals of the duration of unemployment spells. The …-space model of Ahn and Hamilton (2016). I found that the contribution of each factor to the dynamics of disaggregate unemployment …

crowding out, as public sector hiring reduces private employment but the net impact of unemployment is negative. These findings …

In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …

period when unemployment increased in Germany but fell in Britain and the US. I show that in this period, Germany experienced …