German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …

Immigrants make up one fifth of the Belgian working age population, but their labour market integration is poor …. Employment rates of non-EU immigrants, in particular, are very low, and the problem extends to their native-born offspring …. Further, with more precarious jobs and lower wages, immigrants are heavily exposed to poverty. This is explained by low …

insufficient labour mobility to the west, in particular by low-skilled workers. As a result, jobs shortage and lack of …

urbanised areas. Immigrants have high well-being outcomes on average but suffer an initial shortfall in employment and wages … further adjustments to the system to enhance its well-being benefits for both the NZ-born and immigrants. This Working Paper …

This paper identifies the labour market impact of the Great Recession on immigrants compared to natives and how this … market outcomes between immigrants and natives were accentuated by the recession, when the employment penalty was the highest … many refugee immigrants with weak labour market attachment became naturalised citizens during the recession. This suggests …

Young people have been hit hard by unemployment during the Irish recession. While much research has been undertaken to … unemployment and the associated challenges. This paper attempts to fill this gap by comparing the profile of transitions to work … transition of the youth from unemployment to employment fell dramatically. The fall is not due to changes in the composition or …

mobility, a somewhat longer duration of unemployment benefits and an upscaled Public Employment Service would be of value, as … unemployment rate. Mobility is hampered by the underdevelopment of the rental housing market, while there is room to enhance the …Significant labour market mismatches and insufficient mobility penalise employment and productivity. Mismatches have …

relationship between the unemployment and the job vacancy rate. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered … because mismatch increased substantially. Looking on the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a … substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for manual routine tasks as well as for the region of Vienna. …

The global crisis led to a smaller increase in the unemployment rate than in most other OECD countries as employment … permanent contracts while the higher unemployment mostly affected workers with weaker labour market attachment. A main challenge … international standards, hampering entry to the labour market for many low-skilled workers. Unemployment benefits are relatively …