The Macedonian labor market exhibits a high unemployment rate, yet does not demonstrate obvious and large enough …

a tightening labor market, inflation remains subdued. Employment has grown 1¼–1½ percent in 2007, on par with the …

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

The paper discusses the flexicurity model, its key policy elements, and association with a low unemployment rate and a … high standard of social security for the unemployed. It provides details of an empirical analysis of unemployment …

This paper describes determinants of Japan’s productivity growth, reform outputs, and speculation on future potential …

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 …

The Spanish economy suffered an unprecedented double-dip recession with the rising unemployment and public debt …