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

This paper studies the unemployment accelerator, a mechanism where workers directly affect the firms' financial … conditions, and, in turn, firms' financial conditions feedback again to the real economy. The unemployment accelerator builds on … in labor and financial markets. We provide compelling micro-evidence of the unemployment accelerator: a 10% increase in a …

, 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 …

the need for unemployment insurance. It is also an opportunity to boost digitalisation and innovate with smart practices …

retirement schemes than their Scandinavian counterparts. To restrict their use, extended unemployment benefit, which is paid to … unemployed persons aged 61 or more after normal unemployment benefit expires until they retire or reach 65, should be phased out …

While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low …-skilled workers are still unemployed and the duration of unemployment spells is still long. The introduction of an in-work benefit for …. Measures to improve mobility of workers across regions, notably housing policy reform, would lower long unemployment durations …