While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low … workers in low-income households, subject to a minimum of hours worked, could lower barriers to higher employment which result …

respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies … Public Employment Service should continue. On the labour demand side, there remains scope to raise the efficiency of Germany …'s employment protection system. Also, provisions should be made to allow for a higher degree of wage flexibility across …

) aggregate employment. Indeed, among the older EU member states, Austria has benefited the most from the transition of the …

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 … labour market participation - particularly for those groups "at the margin" of the labour market, group-specific employment …

focus on the impact of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from OECD countries on employment in the home country of the … affected more strongly. The empirical findings in the paper suggest that the aggregate employment impact of outward FDI varies … is evidence that domestic employment has become more sensitive to movements in domestic labour costs. At the country …

government employees in a number of OECD countries. Under alternative scenarios for future public employment policies, available …

and overall employment, and the implications of labour market arrangements for industrial structure and innovation … potential. We also look at the potential implications of regulatory reform for employment security and income inequality. We … data, though the analysis of employment uses also the time-series dimension. To this end, we rely on a large set of …

regulation to strengthen competition could help expand formal sector employment. Changes in municipal laws and regulations to … ease migration and facilitate informal employment are also likely to be particularly important. Improving the … implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …