historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that … increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled low-wage workers, and increases the …

reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To …, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both …

Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a … transition rates: (a) from employment to unemployment have fallen over time (b) from unemployment to employment were unusually …

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …

in the working-age population: early 32 percent of Tunisian youth were "Not in Education, Employment, or Training" (NEET … paper aims to shed light on the main obstacles to creating sufficient employment and addressing labor market distortions in …

This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006 …-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish … education, which is a group of graduates with many people from ethnic minorities. We document ethnic employment gaps by using an …

unemployment in the U.S. labor market. In the empirical analysis, we document that the similar cyclical behavior of involuntary … part-time work and unemployment masks major differences in the underlying dynamics. Unlike unemployment, variations in … involuntary part-time work are mostly explained by its interaction with full-time employment, and since the Great Recession …

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment … outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes through differences in skills and traits. Using Bivariate and Heckit … labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men …

This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …