This paper proposes a methodology for benchmarking unemployment benefits systems, with a view to assess reform needs … and priorities. The methodology permits to assess different dimensions of unemployment benefit systems and to consider … alternative relevant benchmarks. Looking at all relevant dimensions allows to better gauge how unemployment benefit systems …

unemployment support. …

Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an …

This paper estimates the impact of fiscal consolidation on unemployment and job market flows across EU countries using … show that the impact of fiscal consolidation on cyclical unemployment is temporary and significant mostly for expenditure …-finding rate corresponds to a longer average duration of unemployment spells, fiscal policy shocks also tend to have a stronger …