Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

necessarily increasing general unemployment. However, recent evidence from transition and emerging economies shows that employment …Employment protection legislation aims to shield employees against unfair dismissal and earning reductions at the time … of job loss. Theory suggests that employment protection stabilizes employment over cyclical upturns and downturns without …

The objective of providing vocational training for the unemployed is to increase their chances of re-employment and … prolong the unemployment duration of training participants. But, after an initial period of deterioration, better long …-term employment opportunities are possible. …

Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for …

Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

suggest that those benefits come at the cost of reduced employment levels, especially during recessions. The income losses of …

High unemployment and its social and economic consequences have lent urgency to the question of how to improve … unemployment insurance in bad times without jeopardizing incentives to work or public finances in the medium term. A possible … solution is a rule-based system that improves the generosity of unemployment insurance (replacement rate, benefit duration …