Youth unemployment and in particular long-term youth unemployment in Bulgaria is much higher than the EU average. Low … flows out of unemployment into a job, especially for the least educated and qualified young people residing in peripheral … regions, are the principal source of long-term unemployment amongst young people. Evidence based on various data sources …

instrument to capture the profile of WISEs in Flanders (Belgium). We discuss some methodological issues in using administrative …

employment and labor force participation, and by increasing unemployment to rates unseen in Romania. The Romanian government soon … Completion of employees’ incomes (I11) was on the efficiency frontier, along with Vocational training (I7). Unemployment …

unemployment rate are mixed. This study analyzes the relationship between employment protection legislation measured by the OECD … Employment Protection Index and the unemployment rate between 2001 and 2008. After controlling country fixed effects, I find that … more stringent employment protection legislation may not be a significant factor for higher a unemployment rate. The …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between welfare expenditure by government and unemployment … a statistically significant positive impact on unemployment outcomes (total unemployment, long-term unemployment and … youth unemployment). Among the four major components of national welfare expenditure, only income support and pension …

Active labour market policies are commonly used tool to fight unemployment. In the late 1970s in most developed …

evidences indicating its dynamic character and its instrumental role in ameliorating unemployment and propelling the developing … into the diverse aspects of the ‘multidimensional’ informal sector, its role in the context of unemployment, child labour …

migrants on the other hand. This study specifies that white migration should be treated as a function of white unemployment … rate and white income levels, whereas black migration should be a function of black unemployment rates and black income … levels. The reasoning is simple: the levels of black and white unemployment rates and incomes are very different. The end …