. Institutions and other structural factors are also found to be significant and important determinants of the rate of part … markets. Less robust evidence suggests the presence of unemployment traps for some potential part-time workers. Cross …

productivity benefits of digitalisation in euro area countries. For example, a lack of strong institutions and governance …

and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the …

unemployment and decrease old age unemployment. However, once we take the wage response into account, we find that firing costs … increase both youth and old age unemployment. This happens because unions react strategically, and respond to higher firing … increase their employment prospects. However, despite this cut youth unemployment still increases with firing costs. In the …

average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …

earnings losses for young workers generated by unemployment: unemployment represents time forgone in terms of human capital … downturn, as documented in the empirical literature. At the aggregate level, the framework delivers youth unemployment rates … that are higher and more sensitive to fluctuations in aggregate productivity than total unemployment rates. Additionally …