€”to improve employment rates in Finland. It summarizes recent labor market developments in Finland, and investigates respectively … activate recipients, and focuses on strategies to boost youth employment rates. The paper also discusses the possibility of … using in-work benefit systems to create incentives to work at the low-skilled end of the labor market. …

governance. It reviews the employment issues and trends in the budget framework, and also analyzes the implementation, monitoring …

This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …

moderation. The paper identifies structural shifts in the relationship between wages and unemployment rates—a “wage curveâ …€â€”in 20 industrial countries. It reviews euro area and cross-country developments in labor costs and their bivariate …

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes labor market institutions and reforms for Cyprus. The … paper describes the legal and institutional framework of the Cypriot labor market, and discusses the voluntary framework for … negotiations, the degree of unionization and the system of tripartism, the wage setting mechanism, and labor market programs. The …