Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been argued to improve company performance and stimulate growth and employment … significant benefits (e.g. employment) for the former. FDI arrived much later to other transition countries (e.g. the former …

levels - do not significantly affect native employment in the short term and boost employment in the long term. …

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 …

employment in a recession. Did the high rate of job turnover continue or did long-term unemployment rise? And did the social … low unemployment. But how did it fare during the recession, especially in Denmark, which has been highlighted as having a …

In reforming unemployment benefit systems, the policy debate should be on the appropriate level of benefits, the … subsidies needed for people who cannot contribute enough, and how to finance the subsidies, rather than on whether unemployment … insurance or individual unemployment savings accounts are better. Unemployment insurance finances subsidies through implicit …

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …