, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates …, thus allowing us to control for possible substitution effects across situations of non-employment and to check whether … institutional rigidities affecting unemployment impact inactivity along the same line. To cope with common problems related to the …

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 …

of other employment policies. …

decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use …

sub-minimum workers as a group lost average earnings, hours and employment compared to other workers. The adverse … employment effect occurred both through a higher probability of transition from employment to non-employment and through a … decreased probability of transition from non-employment to employment. …

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 …

support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … globe. A robust finding in these studies is the positive association between unemployment rates and the size of the … unemployment that features decreasing returns to unofficial activities and congestion effects in job searching, we conjecture a …

rate. Labour market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in …This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …