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An analysis of youth unemployment in the euro area

Gomez-Salvador, Ramon; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine - 2008

people in education, is also linked to the overall decline in youth unemployment. Finally, as regards education, the results …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 …

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Labour market adjustment in Europe during the crisis: Microeconomic evidence from the Wage Dynamics Network survey

Izquierdo, Mario; Jimeno, Juan Francisco; Kosma, Theodora; … - 2017

Against the backdrop of continuing adjustment in EU labour markets in response to the Great Recession and the sovereign debt crisis, the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) conducted the third wave of the Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) survey in 2014-15 as a follow-up to the two previous WDN...

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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges

Masuch, Klaus; Gómez-Salvador, Ramon; … - 2008

The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...

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Government debt management in the euro area - recent theoretical developments and changes in practices

Wolswijk, Guido; de Haan, Jakob - 2005

This paper reviews recent developments in the management of government debt in the euro area, covering both theoretical and practical aspects. It focuses on key aspects of debt management; the objectives of debt management, its organisation, the maturity of debt, inflation-indexation,...

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Assessing fiscal soundness - Theory and practice

Giammarioli, Nicola; Nickel, Christiane; Rother, Philipp; … - 2007

This paper presents a survey of methods for assessing fiscal soundness, i.e. the capability of governments to honour their obligations in the short run and in the long run. The need for a comprehensive monitoring of fiscal soundness derives from the risks to economic stability that arise from...

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The predictability of monetary policy

Blattner, Tobias; Catenaro, Marco; Ehrmann, Michael; … - 2008

Current best practice in central banking views a high level of monetary policy predictability as desirable. A clear distinction, however, has to be made between short-term and longer-term predictability. While short-term predictability can be narrowly defined as the ability of the public to...

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Short-term forecasting of GDP using large monthly datasets - a pseudo real-time forecast evaluation exercise

Barhoumi, Karim; Benk, Szilard; Cristadoro, Riccardo; … - 2008

This paper evaluates different models for the short-term forecasting of real GDP growth in ten selected European countries and the euro area as a whole. Purely quarterly models are compared with models designed to exploit early releases of monthly indicators for the nowcast and forecast of...

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