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 …

Job creation has lowered unemployment, but the Belgian labour market still faces many challenges. Employment rates … combination of income support and incentives could be achieved through reforming both unemployment and in-work benefits. Reforming …

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 …

quantification of reform packages. In line with previous findings, elements of the tax benefit system, activation policies and wage … setting institutions are found to be robust policy determinants of the aggregate employment and unemployment rates. Looking …

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 …

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 …

markets, crowd out productive investment and fuel unemployment. Declining wage shares in OECD countries may be driven in part …

that offer the advantage of reporting monthly transitions between employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for …