other activities at least in some of the NMS in the past few years. In most countries the growth of unemployment has come to … a halt but structural features have remained unchanged or even deteriorated. Long-term unemployment has become a serious … countries. Youth unemployment is particularly high in the Slovak Republic and in Poland. The labour markets in Southeast Europe …

rising efficiency has been rising unemployment. Double-digit unemployment rates have now become a rule. Apart from the truly … disastrous labour market situation in several countries of former Yugoslavia, unemployment has recently acquired dramatic … improvement. And even more than in the rest of Europe, the CEECs' unemployment patterns display distinct regional, gender, age and …

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 …

relied on consistent labour market policies to address the low level of employment and high level of unemployment. Some …

setting and employment in the NMS fell dramatically. In all NMS unemployment insurance schemes as well as minimum wage …