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In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …
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This study reviews the evidence on the labor market impact of youth employment programs. We analyze the effectiveness of interventions, and factors that influence program performance including country context, target beneficiaries, program design, implementation, and evaluation type. We identify...
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Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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The paper describes revisions to the trend employment component of the production function underpinning long-term economic scenarios. Starting with historical age and sex-specific employment rates, a novel approach is developed to correct for cyclical effects using the country-level employment...
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the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …
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Regional inequality in Slovakia is among the highest in the OECD and is increasing. The main reason for regional disparity is the combination of low economic growth and job creation in the eastern and central part of the country and insufficient labour mobility to the west, in particular by...
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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 …
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Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...
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setting institutions are found to be robust policy determinants of the aggregate employment and unemployment rates. Looking …
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The Dutch labour market has recovered and the unemployment rate has been converging towards pre-crisis levels. Non …
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