Australia faces the mutually reinforced challenges of boosting labour supply and promoting social inclusion. Labour underutilisation is especially prevalent among groups such as lone parents, people with disability, and Indigenous Australians. These are also groups at greatest risk of social...

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which is concentrated among the Arab-Israeli and Ultra-orthodox (Haredi) communities. Policies include pilot programmes involving private-sector job placement (the “Wisconsin”...

Seit einiger Zeit ist eine Zunahme der geringfuegigen Nebenbeschaeftigung zu beobachten. Damit stellt sich die Frage nach den Bestimmungsgruenden fuer die Ausuebung dieser so genannten Neben-Minijobs. In diesem Beitrag wird auf der Basis eines hybriden Panelmodells mit Daten des...

Using a large panel of Finnish males, we study how the recession of the early 1990s hit different worker groups and affected inequality in the labour market. Despite large employment losses the cross-section dispersion of earnings is found be almost constant, while differences in layoff and...

There is nowadays a widespread sense that things have gone badly wrong for young workers in advanced economies, and that the difficulty is caused by a fall in their appeal to employers. <p> It is tempting to attribute the problem to a trend in labour demand that favours older, more experienced...</p>

Latin America has experienced an unprecedented period of macroeconomic stability and high economic growth between 2003 and 2008. The main aim of this paper is to analyse to what extent these more favourable conditions have been an opportunity for Latin American countries to recover their labour...

In the past decades, social conditions were favourable in the rich welfare<np pagenum="056"/> states of the West. Employment and incomes were on the rise and social spending remained high while passive welfare states were progressively transformed into so-called ?investment states? accompanied by an increasing...

The positive economic performance of Macedonian economy before the onset of the global economic crisis did not spilled over its effects on the improvements of job creation, inequality and poverty. In 2007, Macedonia experienced 6.1% real GDP growth, thus reaching the pre-transition level of GDP...

Child poverty is a problem firmly recognized in the industrialized world. In the EU nearly one in every five children was poor in 2008 (for the population as a whole the risk of poverty was around 17 per cent). The dimension of the problem and its consequences point out for the importance of...