JEL Cl This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores …

. A key feature of the economic strategy has been an explicit commitment to poverty reduction and structural … hindering further broadening of growth across key sectors to reduce poverty, and highlights the main areas for policy action. …

€”to improve employment rates in Finland. It summarizes recent labor market developments in Finland, and investigates respectively … activate recipients, and focuses on strategies to boost youth employment rates. The paper also discusses the possibility of …

This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …

This paper discusses the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) of Grenada for poverty reduction in the … interim period. It describes the country’s macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty … reduction, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing. It reviews the National Poverty …

unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …