employment rate, but also high wage inequality, informality and labour turnover, which limits incentives for firms to invest in …

After the onset of the crisis, unemployment in Sweden increased markedly, though much less than expected and than … that high unemployment does not become entrenched or leads to withdrawals from the labour force. The government has taken …

labour market dimensions. These include employment and unemployment rates, youth wages, decisions to work and study, youth …

picking up, despite considerable business-climate obstacles to entrepreneurship. Unemployment remains high, and labour …

Countries differ widely with respect to the level of labour income inequality among individuals of working age. Labour … income inequality is shaped by differences in wage rates, hours worked and inactivity rates. Individual labour income … inequality is the main driver of household market income inequality, with family formation as well as self-employment and capital …

distinguished according to whether they are found to generate an increase or a reduction in household disposable income inequality …. Those that contribute to reduce inequality include the reduction in regulatory barriers to competition, trade and FDI, as … well as the stepping-up in job search assistance and training programmes. Conversely, a tightening of unemployment benefits …