. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both … mobility induce significant resource misallocation. Employment protection is not particularly stringent, but the labour market …Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the …

High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust … significant disincentives for labour supply of older people and spouses, which should be eliminated. Unemployment related benefits … and active labour market policies can be better geared toward activating the unemployed, while institutional reform of the …

, 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 …

While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low …-skilled workers are still unemployed and the duration of unemployment spells is still long. The introduction of an in-work benefit for …, as would the provision of more training to the unemployed. Impediments to higher labour market participation of young …

implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less …-skilled blacks. The legacies of apartheid can explain part of the increase in labour supply and inability of the economy to absorb it …

, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age … young people who are unemployed and have no solid financial backing from their families find themselves in precarious … independence of young people. The workings of the labour market, some features of which penalise new entrants, need to be reformed …

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … through official or unofficial migration, despite various obstacles to labour mobility, including the registration system and … the associated restrictions to social service access. New labour laws were introduced in 2008 to better protect employees …

to be overrepresented among outsiders in the labour market and, as such, highly sensitive to the difference in employment …This working paper assesses the ease of immigrants' integration in OECD labour markets by estimating how an immigration … lag behind natives in terms of employment and/or wages. The differences narrow as years since settlement elapse …

empirically-proven to help regain employment; this will require systematic and rigorous evaluation of labour-market programmes and …Irish youth was hit hard by the crisis. Many young workers have remained unemployed for a long time and, unless it is …

This paper analyses the age structure of employment rates across OECD countries with a focus on France. The statistical … contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age …-specific unemployment rates to the economic cycle is provided for OECD countries. France is one of the OECD countries having the highest …