Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing … disturbing long-run effect of recessions: young people who leave school in the midst of recessions are significantly more likely …

economic downturn. Using British Attitudes Data spanning three decades, we find that prejudice does increase with unemployment …%-point increase in unemployment raises self-reported racial prejudice by 4.1%-points. This result suggests that non …-White workers are more likely to encounter racially prejudiced employers and managers in times of higher unemployment. Consistent …

European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with …

unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …

Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of … countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are …), have very high unemployment and most of the rest have comparatively low unemployment. This variability is highly …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …