, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …

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 …

This article investigates the impact of unemployment on the likelihood of having a first child. Using micro-data from … Germany, and the UK (1994–2001). The results highlight weak negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men …, which can be attributed to the inability to financially support a family. Among women, unemployment exerts a positive effect …

Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less … which produced the extreme levels of unemployment, but more could have been done to unwind those legacies and other policies … implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …