, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates … institutional rigidities affecting unemployment impact inactivity along the same line. To cope with common problems related to the … variables. New institutional series are proposed, namely to account for unemployment insurance net replacement rates and …

, which is among the highest in the OECD. The paper argues that policies should continue to tackle the high inactivity of … early stage. For the long-term unemployed, policies should be further strengthened by adjusting the unemployment benefit and …

evidence is only starting to catch up. In particular, EPL is not robust as an indicator of overall unemployment, but previous …

The Krugman hypothesis attributes high wage inequality in the US and high unemployment in continental Europe in the …, which suggests that, when labor supply is sensitive to wages, there is a trade-off between unemployment on one hand, and … wage inequality and inactivity on the other. …

decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour …

This paper examines the recent evolution of unemployment and inactivity in Brazilian metropolitan areas. We analyze the … inactivity: it is inversely related to male inactivity and directly related to female inactivity. Moreover, the observed patterns … among poor and non-poor women are extremely different – poor women have higher inactivity rates than non-poor women …

became critical. For this age group, in recent years, unemployment reached very high levels (21.8% in 2010 and 21.9% in 2011 …

This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …

decline in unemployment has flattened out. Due to the lower economic growth in the forecasting horizon the number of employees … policy instruments this year. The unemployment rate will amount to 10.4% in 2012 and to 10.2% in 2013. …