This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-sector-skill specific minimum wage floors for all workers. By exploiting variation...

Unemployment and the state in Britain: The means test and protest in 1930s south Wales and north-east England -- Half Title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Overview -- 1. Unemployment...

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A review of the record -- 3 A look at the future -- 4 Seasonal patterns -- 5 The dynamics of the market: short-term flows and transition probabilities -- 6 Has the structure of unemployment rates changed? -- 7 On the causes of high youth...

This report on Lithuania is the tenth country study published in a series of reports looking into how policies connect people with jobs. This report is produced in the framework of a project of the OECD with the European Commission which aims to raise the quality of the data collected and their...

Cover -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on Currency -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. State against Industry: Time and Labor among Dominican Furniture Makers -- 2. Of Violence and Precarity: Gender, Food, Debt -- 3. The End of the Colmado? -- 4. For Cooperatives: Mutual Aid,...

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Summary -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Historical View of International Immigration -- 1.1.2 International Immigration in Asian Countries -- 1.2 Economic Theory on International Migration: Special Subjects -- 1.2.1 Unemployment -- 1.2.2...

The annual Global Employment Trends reports provide the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty. They also analyse country-level issues and project trends in the labour market up to 2019