inactivity traps inherent in the Polish personal transfer system, while improving the efficiency and targeting of social …

Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

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 …

students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active … because of the high level of long-term unemployment, more emphasis should be placed on activation policies, particularly on …

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 …

, 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 …