Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

The youth population bulge is often mentioned in discussions of youth unemployment and unrest in developing countries … unemployment is mixed. It should not be assumed that declines in the relative size of the youth population will translate into … falling youth unemployment in coming decades without further policy measures to improve the youth labor market. …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

necessarily increasing general unemployment. However, recent evidence from transition and emerging economies shows that employment … protection legislation tends to raise unemployment among disadvantaged groups, particularly youth, and may increase informal work …

Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors …, for helping the unemployed back into work, and for more evenly distributing the burden of unemployment resulting from …