, 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 …

information base, the employment and unemployment analysis meets several problems, which impose some developments to be analyzed …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …

major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …

replacement rates or initial tax rates are high, while no increase in unemployment occurs when institutions are ‘employment …This Paper explains the divergent behaviour of European and US unemployment rates using a job market-matching model of … the labour market with an interaction between shocks and institutions. It shows that a reduction in TFP growth rates, an …

We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an …-manufacturing wages and a 7.3% reduction in unemployment. …