relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

A rapid decrease in unemployment is a short-term priority to limit social problems and reduce the risk of rising … structural unemployment. To this end, strengthening labour market policies to sustain labour demand is key. The public works …

While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low …-skilled workers are still unemployed and the duration of unemployment spells is still long. The introduction of an in-work benefit for …. Measures to improve mobility of workers across regions, notably housing policy reform, would lower long unemployment durations …

This paper investigates unemployment and labour market rigidities in OECD countries in 1983?1994. The central issue is … the taxation-unemployment relationship and whether this relationship is exogenous or simultaneously determined. Hausman … specification tests indicate that the impact of taxation on short-term unemployment is positive and exogenous whereas the …

to facilitate hiring dynamics and to minimise long-term unemployment and scarring risks among vulnerable groups who have …

, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …

This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' unemployment in OECD countries and investigates the … raise temporarily natives' unemployment, over a period of approximately five to ten years. Anticompetitive product market … protection legislation magnifies its persistence, and a higher average replacement rate of unemployment benefits increases its …