general system, appears to have attenuated regional dispersion. Nevertheless, there are still unreformed areas in the general … system, such as disability benefits and early pensions, which encouraged the low-skilled to become less active or inactive …. These findings support calls for an integration of KRUS in the general system or at least a major change of KRUS …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the effect of international migration on unemployment in New Zealand. The empirical … results in this paper suggest that net migration inflows give rise to a fall in the unemployment rate. The paper estimates a … system of equations including the unemployment rate, real wage, net migration rate, and labor force participation rate …