youth unemployment are persistent and especially affect the lower-skilled. Skill and occupational mismatches of vocational … time, the labour market has been responding faster to output shocks and output growth consistent with constant unemployment …-term unemployment. …

contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age …-specific unemployment rates to the economic cycle is provided for OECD countries. France is one of the OECD countries having the highest …’s total unemployment rate differential with best-performing countries. Youth unemployment rate is especially sensitive to …

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 …

The various deficiencies of the labour market and the educational system have resulted in high unemployment, low labour … force participation, low skills levels and high skill mismatch. Job creation is key to tackling the high unemployment rates … a priority. Business involvement in education and training institutions at all educational levels will be paramount to …

Inflation has become much less sensitive to movements in unemployment in recent decades. A common explanation for this … unemployment gap which underlie the OECD’s Economic Outlook projections. The former OECD specification can be characterised as a … backward-looking specification, the anchored expectations approach also tends to imply larger unemployment gaps for those …

setting institutions are found to be robust policy determinants of the aggregate employment and unemployment rates. Looking …

picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …

education are unequally distributed. Adequate funding for education institutions is not assured everywhere while inefficiencies …