, 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 …

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 …

cyclical job loss and unemployment fell disproportionately on young and unskilled workers. The paper identifies, by age, gender …

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 …