. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits …

There have been concerns that employment-enhancing reforms along the lines of the 1994 OECD Jobs Strategy could … employment have in general offset the impact of rising wage dispersion. A preliminary econometric analysis for the period 1978 …

stability. Furthermore, we find that the employment effects of the minimum wage vary considerably across markets that exhibit … different degrees of labor market tightness. Our results help explain the small effects of minimum wages on employment commonly …

Certification Program (PIECP) on unemployment duration, length of formal employment, and earnings of men and women released from … investigated. The program is found to increase reported earnings and formal employment on the extensive margin, with a stronger … impact on the formal employment of women. There is little evidence that it increases formal employment along the intensive …

"buffer stock" employment to workers displaced from private employment, then full employment can be maintained over the course … of the business cycle. Kalecki was sceptical about the prospects for maintaining full employment in capitalist economies … employment. We argue that in and of themselves, JG/ELR schemes do not create the fundamental institutional change required to …

; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect …