This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in … countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus on the main pillars of labour market institutions, as employment …

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …

housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …

There is substantial evidence on the effectiveness of short-time work on reducing unemployment. However, no study looks … discontinuity designs to show that unemployment does not increase in regions with robust programs while rising up to seventeen …

share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterises the Italian labour market, notably the 30 … percent's unemployment rate in the South (6 percent in the North) and the presence of a large share of the labour force …