. Employment rates of non-EU immigrants, in particular, are very low, and the problem extends to their native-born offspring …Immigrants make up one fifth of the Belgian working age population, but their labour market integration is poor …. Further, with more precarious jobs and lower wages, immigrants are heavily exposed to poverty. This is explained by low …

Maintaining high participation and employment in the face of the recent recession and a rapidly ageing population are … and employment. Institutional responsibilities in labour market policies should be simplified and made more transparent …

only if immigrants are in work. Yet a significant proportion of immigrants have found it quite difficult to get work in … generous social benefits that have caught many of the least skilled immigrants in a benefit trap. A heightened appreciation of … these problems, including a tighter focus on the economic situation of the immigrants already present, have underpinned the …

substitutable with immigrants may lose, calling for a smooth working of labour and product markets in OECD countries. The paper also …

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 …

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 …

There have been concerns that employment-enhancing reforms along the lines of the 1994 OECD Jobs Strategy could … employment have in general offset the impact of rising wage dispersion. A preliminary econometric analysis for the period 1978 …

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …

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