in its labor market. Institutions that typically characterize rigid labor markets are effectively balanced by flexibility … instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing … participation rates, and (since 2011) moderately increasing labor compensation. The German labor market has also been remarkably …

Experiences during the Great Recession support the view that the UK labor market is relatively flexible. Unemployment … stability of the UK labor market, is not yet visible in labor market statistics. …

in its labor market. Institutions that typically characterize rigid labor markets are effectively balanced by flexibility … instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing … participation rates, and (since 2011) moderately increasing labor compensation. The German labor market has also been remarkably …

Finland’s population is aging rapidly by international comparison. The shrinking working-age population means that the … for economic growth through increased labor input diminishes. Fiscal sustainability of the welfare state calls for a high … finances, but high overall unemployment and a large share of the long-term unemployed are serious concerns. …

Experiences during the Great Recession support the view that the UK labor market is relatively flexible. Unemployment … stability of the UK labor market, is not yet visible in labor market statistics. …

France has the second largest population of countries in the EU. Since 2000, the French labor market has undergone …. The most interesting of these changes have been the massive improvement in the education of the labor force (especially of …

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the … discuss new evidence of labor market networks that are to some extent stratified by race, which may help explain racial … urban blacks, and because, in the case of MTO, the role of labor market networks was weakened. Finally, we discuss policies …

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … identified as a key reason for the rising US wage inequality, while labor market rigidities are often cited as a key reason for … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the …