This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment … European unemployment rates observed during the seventies. The explanation given is that even if the unemployment rate would … job creation remains low making the return to a low unemployment rate impossible. The paper shows that in some cases …

This study poses the question about whether labour market institutions can explain unemployment rates in the ten new … European Union member states. In five out of the ten new member states, unemployment rates lie above the average in the 15 … part of unemployment in the new EU member states. This does not mean that these countries have no labour market problems …

– be on judgments on race and ethnic origin, age, disability, religion and sexual orientation. …

, regardless of, for example, age, disability, gender, race or ethnic origin, religion or sexual orientation. In 2010, the …

Turkey is currently introducing a comprehensive pension reform, which aims at unifying the currently disperse system … roughly 110% of GDP or 1.5 times total public debt. The age dependency ratio is just 9 while the average age of the Turkish … pension deficit. Furthermore, today’s demographic advantages are expected to disappear within the next thirty years. The …

States, there is increasing policy concern about the growing numbers of young people who are entering long-term disability … growing numbers of people categorised as disabled due to mental health problems.... …