We assess the employment impact of the Lisbon Strategy, examining long-run growth in total, female and old-age employment rates from 1994 to 2009. The Strategy had some impact, especially for old-age workers, but no improvement ensued from its mid-term reassessment.

<alinea/> In Algeria, The reasons for the doublement of the unemployment level from 1990 to 1997 - reaching more than 24% of the working population - lie partly in the demographic and institutionnal factors. However, those features hardly explain the breaks in the unemployment growth trend. Neither do...

This article compares the policies that began in Spain and Italy to contain the effects of the crisis regarding unemployment. In order to obtain employment recovery it is necessary to integrate the Income Support Policies and therefore the Employment Demand Support. But so important are the...

La combinaison de facteurs démographiques et de progrès dans l’éducation a entraîné une hausse significative du chômage des diplômés dans la région MENA. L’article fournit une analyse de type coût-efficacité de politiques alternatives d’mploi à l’aide d’un modèle...

The paper aims to realize an analysis of the employment evolution in Romania and in all the European Union member states in the context of the economic crisis, with an emphasis on the employment on the auto industry, one of the most affected sectors by this crisis. In the same time, we will...

The paper discusses the Employment of Last Resort (ELR) policy proposal that has emerged from Post Keynesian theory as an embodiment of what Keynes called “socialization of investment,” as well as an avenue for a social provisioning approach towards socialization of unpaid care labor....

The combination of demographic factors and an increase in education has caused a significant rise of university graduates’ unemployment in the MENA region. The article provides a prospective cost- effectiveness analysis of the impact of alternative labor market policies using a dynamic general...

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the potential impact of oil on economic growth and policy for Cambodia. It shows that a hypothetical moderately sized oil sector would have a significant, but not overwhelming, impact on macroeconomic prospects; but reaping the benefits while avoiding economic...

This Selected Issues paper investigates the possible contribution of activation strategies—in a broad sense—to improve employment rates in Finland. It summarizes recent labor market developments in Finland, and investigates respectively the limitation of current unemployment and...