Inflation has become much less sensitive to movements in unemployment in recent decades. A common explanation for this … unemployment gap which underlie the OECD’s Economic Outlook projections. The former OECD specification can be characterised as a … backward-looking specification, the anchored expectations approach also tends to imply larger unemployment gaps for those …

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 …

German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …

model that features endogenous producer entry, equilibrium unemployment and costly job creation and destruction. Unlike in …, but some of them -- such as job protection reforms -- are found to increase unemployment temporarily. Implementing a broad …

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 …

students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active … because of the high level of long-term unemployment, more emphasis should be placed on activation policies, particularly on …