of COVID-19. This occasional paper assesses the impact of this crisis on key labour market variables, such as (un-)employment …

some euro area countries, in others dramatic changes in employment and unemployment rates have been observed and, indeed …

The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has … relationship between the share of young people in the total population and the youth unemployment rate, i.e. the smaller the share …