employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to …

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 …