The various deficiencies of the labour market and the educational system have resulted in high unemployment, low labour … force participation, low skills levels and high skill mismatch. Job creation is key to tackling the high unemployment rates … a priority. Business involvement in education and training institutions at all educational levels will be paramount to …

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 …

setting institutions are found to be robust policy determinants of the aggregate employment and unemployment rates. Looking …

to facilitate hiring dynamics and to minimise long-term unemployment and scarring risks among vulnerable groups who have …

literature investigating the economic consequences of covid-19 by showing how unemployment-related online searches across the EU … queries related to unemployment in 27 countries. We nowcast the monthly unemployment rate in the EU Member States to assess … five weeks. We suggest that the effect is most likely due to an increase in unemployment expectations. …

picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …

As unemployment rates have reached historical lows across many OECD countries, it is important to focus on the … inactivity across the OECD, focusing on places and people. The paper demonstrates the importance of moving beyond national … averages to understand which regions and cities have higher levels of economic inactivity. It then looks at regional economic …

The Dutch labour market has recovered and the unemployment rate has been converging towards pre-crisis levels. Non …