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Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...
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Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …
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labour market dimensions. These include employment and unemployment rates, youth wages, decisions to work and study, youth …
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Regional inequality in Slovakia is among the highest in the OECD and is increasing. The main reason for regional disparity is the combination of low economic growth and job creation in the eastern and central part of the country and insufficient labour mobility to the west, in particular by...
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setting institutions are found to be robust policy determinants of the aggregate employment and unemployment rates. Looking …
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, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age … young people who are unemployed and have no solid financial backing from their families find themselves in precarious …
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youth unemployment are persistent and especially affect the lower-skilled. Skill and occupational mismatches of vocational … time, the labour market has been responding faster to output shocks and output growth consistent with constant unemployment …-term unemployment. …
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markets, crowd out productive investment and fuel unemployment. Declining wage shares in OECD countries may be driven in part …
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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 …, especially for the young and long-term unemployed. Promoting jobs without paying attention to their quality and to the skills …
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