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 …

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 … qualifications and regions to fight unemployment. Regulatory conditions in other parts of the economy interact in important ways with …

This paper analyses the determinants of structural unemployment rates in a two-stage approach. First, time … drivers of structural unemployment. Consistent with earlier studies, the level of product market regulation, union density and … the unemployment benefit replacement rate also play an important role in explaining changes in the NAIRU although there is …

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

This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the … past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are …, high and long-lasting unemployment benefits, high tax wedges and stringent anti- competitive product market regulation are …

Problems of unemployment and low pay amongst the low-skilled and those with little work experience are severe in many …

Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less … which produced the extreme levels of unemployment, but more could have been done to unwind those legacies and other policies … implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …

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 …

equity has taken place in OECD countries, notably in the 1990s. During this period, reductions of unemployment have been …