Improving Employment Prospects in the Slovak Republic : Building on Past Reforms

Andrés Fuentesi iOECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

关键词: active labour market policies;    in-work benefits;    unemployment;    minimum wage;    employment;    employment protection legislation;    labour market participation;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.1787/081484472812

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: OECD iLibrary

【 摘 要 】

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.