This Selected Issues paper investigates the possible contribution of activation strategies—in a broad sense—to improve employment rates in Finland. It summarizes recent labor market developments in Finland, and investigates respectively the limitation of current unemployment and...

This paper discusses the First Progress Report on the implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) in Serbia. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Serbia and its implementation complement the efforts of Serbia in the European Union integration process. The PRSP also includes...

Unemployment has remained high in the Philippines, at almost twice the level of neighboring countries, despite relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of rapid population growth and increased labor force...

Using a model of wage determination developed by Stevens (2003) we offer an explanation of why tenure has a negative effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows from a model of the labour market in which workers...

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment stability in Europe. Using EU‐SILC and OECD data, we conduct discrete time survival analyses with shared frailty specification to identify policy effects at the micro and macro...

This thesis constists of three papers dealing with labour mobility. In paper [I], I study the effects of job change for wage growth. Job change is assumed to influence wage growth and productivity for both job movers and job stayers. I find that returns on work experience are higher for job...

We offer an explanation of the negative tenure effect in empirical job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, the explanation follows from specific human capital accumulation and how this affects workers’ reactions to outside job opportunities.

Zusammenfassung Das Handeln von Sozialverwaltungen prägt die Teilhabechancen von Personen, die auf staatliche Unterstützung angewiesen sind. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für die öffentliche Arbeitsvermittlung, werden durch sie doch die Chancen zur Erwerbsteilhabe beeinflusst. Für ein...

This paper assesses the matching efficiency of the Portuguese public employment service, applying Data Envelopment Analysis combined with principal component analysis to Portuguese administrative data and comparing the situations in June 1998 and June 2001. We find evidence that the Portuguese...