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 …

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 …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households' behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A … effect of benefits on unemployment. Our analysis shows the importance of investigating the effects of policies on the …

-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in …

Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a …

underlying the decline of routine occupations over time. Our results suggest a process of displacement and occupational … against job displacement and occupational downgrading. Lastly, we find that the decrease in the share of routine occupations … in Chile is mostly due to a decrease in the in ow transition rate from unemployment as well as an increase in the out ow …

participation rate and employment-population ratio but had little discernible effect on the unemployment rate. Factors robustly …