, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work … long hours and cannot make ends meet while the violation of basic human rights is not uncommon. Again, youth unemployment …

seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is rising, both absolutely and as proportion of labour force …, especially in developing regions. Elasticity of employment is low and falling further. Whatever little employment expansion is … market negatively. Employment growth and elasticities are lower in regions that have had rapid globalisation. Institutional …

The relation of the Greek employment policy to the European one, as it was formulated within EES and the Lisbon … strategy, was a particular one. The Greek employment policy fully adopted the form, the structure and the discourse of the EES … but it was only marginally influenced by the “way of doing things.” The compliance of the Greek employment policy with the …

employment and of female labour force. We describe finally some features of the reconstructed statistics for wages, unemployment …, vacancies and employment and assess the impact of structural changes on dualism. The actual methods of data reconstruction are …

. This paper looks at the effects of the crisis on employment and earnings in the financial sector. It also considers how …

employment, trades and vocational qualifications” and for DG V (Employment) of the European Commission in the late 1994. It … instruments were not used in a minimum extend. The new Government, issued from the 1995 elections, proposed “employment” as a … major objective with horizontal responsibility. That’s also why there is now a Ministry for Qualifications and Employment …

shocks temporarily increase unemployment. Positive labor demand shocks increase employment, depress unemployment, rise real … average wages, and were found to be the main determinant of variability of employment and unemployment in the short-run. In … employment and unemployment. The retrospective simulations of the model show that Baltic states and Poland were significantly …

low-skilled workers’ unemployment are examined: wage-setting institutions, employment regulation, globalization, and …The OECD’s unemployment problem is largely concentrated among low-skilled workers. In this paper, four explanations of … provide no support for the hypothesis that low-skilled workers’ employment prospects are hindered by legal minimum wages or …