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

employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of …). Accordingly, the efficient unemployment rate is the geometric average of the unemployment and vacancy rates: u* = √uv. We compute …

unemployment, very low volatility of labour market tightness, and for a positively sloped Beveridge curve. These implications are …

The increase in unemployment to relatively high levels for Switzerland in the 1990s gave rise to two fears: First, that … unemployment, i.e. the rate of employment that prevails even in favourable economic conditions, is on an increasing trend. This … "equilibrium" rate of unemployment exhibit a large spread and tend to follow actual rates. Our judgement is, that its increase over …

, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age …

Job creation has lowered unemployment, but the Belgian labour market still faces many challenges. Employment rates … combination of income support and incentives could be achieved through reforming both unemployment and in-work benefits. Reforming …

and involuntary unemployment. …

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. …