While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/19, the incidence of long …-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for more than one year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover …, the COVID-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term unemployment. This paper explores factors associated with long …

, unemployment benefit systems, and wage bargaining arrangements. In each case, the recent evolution and current state of Italian …

results show that workers who enter temporary help work from registered unemployment do not enjoy subsequent greater chances … risks of unemployment. While our results, therefore, do not lend empirical support to a stepping-stone function of temporary … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …

unemployment on inflation, for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since …

unemployment. Key elements of the reforms were a drastic cut in benefits for the long-term unemployed and tighter job search and … reforms were associated with a fall in the earnings of workers returning to work from short-term unemployment relative to …

macroeconomic factors--including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system--as well as individual …-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset provides an interesting … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …