major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …

On June 2000 the Colombian National Department of Statistics (DANE) adopted a new definition to measure unemployment … the unemployment rate of about two percentual points. In this document we contrast the Colombian experience with another … according to the old and new definition of unemployment (employed, unemployed and out of the labour force) using the EM …

This paper focuses on transition from unemployment to employment. A comparison between jobs found by formerly …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy … - on the ability of these theories to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behaviour. The paper considers …