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 …. Measures to improve mobility of workers across regions, notably housing policy reform, would lower long unemployment durations …

The financial crisis has resulted in a substantial increase in unemployment in the OECD. This paper shows that this … increase has reversed the reduction in structural unemployment which has been estimated to have occurred in most OECD countries … since the late 1990s. Structural unemployment is defined as a time-varying NAIRU derived from the information contained in a …

This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' unemployment in OECD countries and investigates the … raise temporarily natives' unemployment, over a period of approximately five to ten years. Anticompetitive product market … protection legislation magnifies its persistence, and a higher average replacement rate of unemployment benefits increases its …

, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …

The structural rate of unemployment and associated non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (the NAIRU) are of … applied ...<BR><P>Les concepts de taux de chômage structurel et NAIRU (<I>non accelerating inflation rate of unemployment …

This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the … and institutions affect employment not only via their impact on aggregate unemployment but also through their effects on … specific interactions across policies and institutions are found to be particularly robust, notably between unemployment …

inadvertently lead to increased income inequality and poverty. This paper focuses on the impact of institutions and redistributive … equity has taken place in OECD countries, notably in the 1990s. During this period, reductions of unemployment have been …- 2000 fails to detect any robust relationship between labour market institutions/policies and inequality as measured by the …

institutions, reforming the tax and transfer system, and maintaining labour market flexibility. Beyond labour market policies, the …’une manière générale, les formations, l’amélioration des institutions du marché du travail, la réforme du système d’impôts et de …