Why did employment growth – high in the last decade – take place at the expense of young workers in the countries of … Central and Southern Europe? This is the question addressed in this paper. Youth unemployment has approached or exceeded 20 … a positive impact on its evolution: population ageing and the demographic decline, low labor cost of young workers …

disposal is consistent with the official LFS youth unemployment rate increased by a reasonable estimate of the number of … workers who end up in irregular, undetectable activities. …

. Our results show that the neighbourhood affects the individual's job search method and referral workers earn less wage at … the bottom of the wage distribution with respect to non-referred workers. At the top of the wage distribution the …

stone to higher wages or traps workers in a low-wage – nowage cycle. In this paper we utilise the longitudinal element of … at or below the NMW, above the NMW, unemployment and inactivity, using a multinomial logit approach. It appears that for … many workers payment at or below the NMW is of relatively short duration and a substantial number move into higher paid …

econometric explorations on microdata drawn from WHIP (Worker Histories Italian Panel). Workers’ performance is compared at the … in this exploration. Our conclusion is that workers behave according to principles of rationality that seem distant from …

outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population ratios fell, particularly among males; unemployment and welfare use …

complementarities story. Unemployment of the least-skilled workers appears lower in areas with a higher share of college-educated labor …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 …

The consequences of business cycle contingencies in unemployment insurance systems are considered in a search …-matching model allowing for shifts between “good” and “bad” states of nature. We show that not only is there an insurance argument … benefits. We show that optimal (utilitarian) benefits are counter-cyclical and may reduce the structural (average) unemployment …