. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both … mobility induce significant resource misallocation. Employment protection is not particularly stringent, but the labour market …Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the …

Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …The paper analyses complementarities among a variety of labour market policies. It shows: (a) that a wide range of …

employed to unemployment facilitates a reduction in the level of employment protection; that unemployment benefits are lower …, the more employment reacts to wages; and that a higher level of unemployment and a right-wing government slow down the …In this paper we argue that many of the rigidities that characterize European labour markets can be understood as the …

High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust … significant disincentives for labour supply of older people and spouses, which should be eliminated. Unemployment related benefits … and active labour market policies can be better geared toward activating the unemployed, while institutional reform of the …

In this Paper, I analyse the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labour market in booms versus …

specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment … for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their … unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment … benefits, `benefit transfers', would help replace the unemployment trap by providing an incentive to seek and provide jobs. The …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …