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 …

the probabilities of worker flows across employment and unemployment in euro area countries during the period 2000-2015 in …

protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates based on local projections find negative short-run effects of …