The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region shows high levels of unemployment rates among youth and the rate of …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

unemployment, its average duration exceeding 14 years. We present a micro-econometric exploration of the underlying process. The …

creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate …

institutions. …

unemployment from the time they left school up to age 30. We show that this experience is negatively correlated with the life … satisfaction that the individual reports at age 30, so that past unemployment scars. We also identify the childhood circumstances … and family background that predict this adult unemployment experience. Educational achievement and good behaviour at age …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force participation and had no significant impacts on wages …

-analysis plan, we investigate the negative impact of the pandemic on unemployment, labour force participation, hours and wages in …

employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment …, these policies increased unemployment by nearly 4 percentage points, but reduced COVID-19 cases by 186,600- 311,000, and …