, 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 …

of work. The immorality of consigning a portion of the workforce to the degradation of unemployment would be eliminated …

political institutions and political rivalry on human capital accumulation and income inequality. Relating to the increasing … inequality. As regards the role of political institutions, our analysis suggests that the elasticities of human capital …

In this paper we intend to empirically examine how different political institutions may define the long-term economic …

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 …

growth, net migration, and changes in unemployment rates at the municipal level in Sweden. The aim is to explore in depth the …