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- ISSN : 18151973 (en ligne)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151973
Improving Employment Prospects in the Slovak Republic
Building on Past Reforms
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.
Mots-clés: active labour market policies, in-work benefits, unemployment, minimum wage, employment, employment protection legislation, labour market participation
JEL:
J59: Labor and Demographic Economics / Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining / Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Other;
J32: Labor and Demographic Economics / Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs / Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions;
J21: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor / Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure;
J38: Labor and Demographic Economics / Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs / Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy;
J26: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor / Retirement; Retirement Policies
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