inactivity traps inherent in the Polish personal transfer system, while improving the efficiency and targeting of social …

major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …

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

This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' unemployment in OECD countries and investigates the … raise temporarily natives' unemployment, over a period of approximately five to ten years. Anticompetitive product market … protection legislation magnifies its persistence, and a higher average replacement rate of unemployment benefits increases its …

to facilitate hiring dynamics and to minimise long-term unemployment and scarring risks among vulnerable groups who have …

migration are undermining Bulgaria’s growth prospects, the sustainability of its social institutions and society more widely … disadvantaged backgrounds should be offered a career path through upgrading skills and lifelong learning. Inactivity rates among the …