the EU 15 countries in terms of employment rates, employment patterns and unemployment. There are persistently high shares … of long-term unemployed, youth unemployment is twice as high as in the EU-15 and there are diverging trends in female and … lower in the other countries; but employment rates are very low (and, conversely, unemployment is high) for the low …

to find out whether they can deliver growth of employment and decline of unemployment in the medium run and whether they … are adverse shocks. Otherwise, adjustment would work through a fall in employment levels and an increase in unemployment …

institutions in the Western Balkans is weak but improving with further steps in the European integration process; the EU acts as an … transport networks. Also the human capital could be improved. Unemployment is extremely high and large parts of the population …

, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. Sound institutions … the quality of their institutions and economic governance over the past decade, it is crucial that they preserve the …