In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look …

cycle and the different welfare regimes within Europe …

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 …

between men and women during the Great Recession in Europe. We first highlight that Europe is characterized by high levels of … the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …

countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …

crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type … temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe …

. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …