Research Catalog

Title

Improving Employment Prospects in the Slovak Republic [electronic resource]: Building on Past Reforms / Andrés Fuentes

Author

Fuentes, Andrés.

Publication

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2007.

Details

Description

29 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.

Summary

While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low-skilled workers are still unemployed and the duration of unemployment spells is still long. The introduction of an in-work benefit for workers in low-income households, subject to a minimum of hours worked, could lower barriers to higher employment which result from a relatively high tax wedge on lowskill workers, as would the elimination of poverty traps in the pension system. Measures to improve mobility of workers across regions, notably housing policy reform, would lower long unemployment durations, as would the provision of more training to the unemployed. Impediments to higher labour market participation of young women and older workers need to be removed.

Series Statement

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.579

Uniform Title

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.579.

Subject

• Economics
• Slovak Republic

LCCN

10.1787/081484472812

OCLC

oecd-lib

Author

Fuentes, Andrés.

Title

Improving Employment Prospects in the Slovak Republic [electronic resource]: Building on Past Reforms / Andrés Fuentes

Imprint

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2007.

Series

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.579

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.579.

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Indexed Term

Economics

Slovak Republic

Other Standard Identifier

10.1787/081484472812 doi