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 …

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 …

increasing targeted training. Reforms in wage setting, labour taxation, unemployment benefits and activation policies will foster … job creation, thus enhancing output growth while avoiding high unemployment becoming entrenched and threatening social …