, which is among the highest in the OECD. The paper argues that policies should continue to tackle the high inactivity of … early stage. For the long-term unemployed, policies should be further strengthened by adjusting the unemployment benefit and …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

The job guarantee is a viable policy option for tackling both unemployment and underemployment. Hyman P. Minsky was one …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

that all the shortrun fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

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