While the unemployment rate in the Baltics has fallen sharply from its crisis-peaks, it remains close to double digits …. Our main findings are that the current still elevated levels of unemployment mostly reflect structural factors. We then … turn to why structural unemployment is so high. This paper points to skill mismatches, high tax wedges, and unemployment …

would generate mass unemployment, and a loss of productive capacity and firm-specific human capital. With many SMEs in …

but have limited effects on overall poverty, as many poor households do not earn a wage near MW and higher unemployment …