policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …

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 …

This paper examines labour market matching in Austria since 2008, with a particular focus on the effects of the COVID …-19 pandemic, overall labour market conditions were relatively stable, with mismatched unemployment returning to pre …

individual shifts from paid employment to either unemployment or self-employment over the period 2001-13, as linked to changes in … probability of workers to become self-employed. R&D increases the probability of moving from unemployment to paid employment …The paper adds to the literature on innovation and employment by looking at the relationship between R&D investments …

the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in … Austria after 2011 can indeed be attributed to a supplyside shock. But, contrary to other research, our analysis shows that …

What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million …, we find that both inflation and unemployment have a negative link with confidence in financial institutions. While … inflation is generally unassociated with confidence in government and leadership approval, unemployment still has a strong …

unemployment or having to file for unemployment benefits during the pandemic are strongly and significantly associated with …

the local unemployment rate when more refugees arrive. The dynamic panel data estimates are robust to various sensitivity …

correlation and significance is achieved between employment variation and the first principal component, mostly in the second week … find a positive and significant relationship between sales and unemployment and perform a time series principal component …