This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have …

, leading in turn to higher, not lower, unemployment. And, even if unemployment comes down, workers may actually be worse off …, going through many spells of unemployment and fixed duration jobs, before obtaining a regular job. Looking at French data … substantial reduction in unemployment duration. If anything, their effect on welfare of young workers appears to have been …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …

France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy … (around 6 mln) and Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements …