newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers …

to document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more …-of-work immigrants could find jobs fell relative to the native job-finding rate. A small part of the relative increase in the immigrant … rate of job loss arises because immigrants were less likely to work in jobs that could be performed remotely and suffered …

to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the labour market and how employment and unemployment have been …

This paper focuses particularly on youth unemployment, why we should be concerned about it, why it is increasing again … adulthood unemployment creates long lasting scars which affect labour market outcomes much later in life. Our chosen variables … are weekly wages and happiness. Our results show significant effects at age 50 from early adulthood unemployment. These …

impact of the unemployment rate itself. This pattern holds across recent decades in the US data, and the relationship … strengthens in recent years when variation in participation increases. We also examine the impact of long-term unemployment on … wages and find it has no different effect from that of short-term unemployment. Our analysis provides strong empirical …

, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated …

Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to both unemployment and underemployment, which in our view are invalid. Without any evidence … the MPC in its assessment of the output gap reduces the level of unemployment because of its claim that long …-term unemployment has no effect on wages. We produce contrary evidence. The MPC further reduces the level of underemployment in the …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …