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to facilitate hiring dynamics and to minimise long-term unemployment and scarring risks among vulnerable groups who have …
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, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …
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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 …
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, including unemployment-related and disability schemes. Pooled cross-country time-series regressions show that increased …
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labour markets, the lower the adjustment costs imposed by labour market regulation. Moreover, in industries with a ... …
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The OECD makes frequent use of the supply-side framework and associated measures of factor productivity, productive potential and associated output gaps in the assessment of the short-term conjunctural situation, comparative economic performance and longer-term growth determinants. This paper...
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This paper discusses several aspects of the medium-term orientation of OECD countries' economic policies in the 1980s, concentrating on monetary and fiscal instruments. The developments that led to the adoption of such a "medium-term strategy", and the apparent analytical rationale for it, are...
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. But unemployment remains unacceptably high -- having fallen only slightly from its peak of 38 million in 1993 to the …
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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 …
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This paper provides a revised measure of regulatory restrictions on inward foreign direct investment (FDI)for OECD countries and extends the approach to 13 non-member countries. The methodology is largely similar to that adopted in the previous version of the OECD indicator and covers three...
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