Active and passive labour market programmes in OECD countries

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Oecd Countries

Evidence-based regulation of labour migration in OECD countries: setting quotas, selection criteria, and shortage lists

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Chaloff
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Market Analysis ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Periodic Review ◽  
Market Data ◽  
Almost All

The growing complexity of selection criteria for discretionary labour migration in OECD countries has been accompanied by an expanded demand for labour market analysis and consultation with stakeholders. While some features of general or detailed criteria may be fixed in legislation, numerical quotas or targets, shortage lists, and multiple-criteria points-based systems are generally subject to periodic review and revision based on labour market data and consultation with stakeholders. Official government bodies have maintained co-ordination of this process, with varying degrees of externalization. In most countries expertise is internal, with recourse to external mandated bodies rare. In almost all cases, however, the process is designed to promote consensus around the policy while maintaining political control.

scholarly journals Migration and labour market outcomes in OECD countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 2010 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Jean ◽  
Isabelle Wanner ◽  
Miguel Jimenez ◽  
Orsetta Causa
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes

scholarly journals Can the insider–outsider theory explain unemployment hysteresis in OECD countries?

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Bakas ◽  
Yousef Makhlouf
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Unit Root ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Unit Root Tests ◽  
Panel Unit Root Tests ◽  
Panel Unit Root ◽  
Hysteretic Behaviour

Abstract Insider–outsider theory is often used as a basis for explaining the hysteretic behaviour of unemployment. Despite this, there is no empirical evidence about the validity of this theory on explaining the persistence of unemployment. This article addresses this gap, using various labour market proxies of insiders’ power for the OECD countries over 1960–2013 and employing panel unit root tests that exploit the information contained in these proxies. The results show that although the unemployment rate exhibits a pronounced hysteretic behaviour in OECD countries, this behaviour is reversed once we account for the insider–outsider proxies. Our findings thus validate the role of the insider–outsider theory as a key source of unemployment hysteresis.

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