Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

portable across firms. Prospects on working conditions after re-employment deteriorate with longer unemployment spells … of unemployment, including the more highly educated. The risk of hysteresis effects is significant in particular for … intensive programmes such as training where necessary, while in general personalised job search assistance to get jobseekers …

relationship between the unemployment and the job vacancy rate. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered … because mismatch increased substantially. Looking on the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a … substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for manual routine tasks as well as for the region of Vienna. …

The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has … relationship between the share of young people in the total population and the youth unemployment rate, i.e. the smaller the share …

contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age …-specific unemployment rates to the economic cycle is provided for OECD countries. France is one of the OECD countries having the highest …’s total unemployment rate differential with best-performing countries. Youth unemployment rate is especially sensitive to …

well-being. Importantly, we find that the risk of unemployment has a detrimental effect on the well-being of employed …. Policymakers should therefore focus not only on reducing the level of unemployment, but also on speeding up unemployment turnover … at a given level of unemployment. Unemployment insurance also mitigates the adverse effect of unemployment risk, and …

increasing targeted training. Reforms in wage setting, labour taxation, unemployment benefits and activation policies will foster … job creation, thus enhancing output growth while avoiding high unemployment becoming entrenched and threatening social …

The global crisis led to a smaller increase in the unemployment rate than in most other OECD countries as employment … permanent contracts while the higher unemployment mostly affected workers with weaker labour market attachment. A main challenge … international standards, hampering entry to the labour market for many low-skilled workers. Unemployment benefits are relatively …