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 …

, unemployment benefit systems, and wage bargaining arrangements. In each case, the recent evolution and current state of Italian …

results show that workers who enter temporary help work from registered unemployment do not enjoy subsequent greater chances … risks of unemployment. While our results, therefore, do not lend empirical support to a stepping-stone function of temporary … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …