This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the … and institutions affect employment not only via their impact on aggregate unemployment but also through their effects on … past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are …

There have been concerns that employment-enhancing reforms along the lines of the 1994 OECD Jobs Strategy could … equity has taken place in OECD countries, notably in the 1990s. During this period, reductions of unemployment have been … employment have in general offset the impact of rising wage dispersion. A preliminary econometric analysis for the period 1978 …

implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less … which produced the extreme levels of unemployment, but more could have been done to unwind those legacies and other policies …

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 deals with trends and cycles of unemployment and labour-force participation. Empirical evidence on both … trends and cyclical movements in unemployment and participation is presented. Some of the mechanisms behind the observed … assessment of labour market slack of the observed interplay between unemployment and participation are discussed. The paper ends …

, including unemployment-related and disability schemes. Pooled cross-country time-series regressions show that increased …

. But unemployment remains unacceptably high -- having fallen only slightly from its peak of 38 million in 1993 to the …