domains with macro-structural relevance (employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, wage setting). Reforms tend … improved activity rates and lower unemployment. …

unemployment on the level of regional labor markets. Using variation in the regional exposure to the new wage floor, we employ a … difference-in-differences approach that compares the evolution of employment and unemployment between regions with varying … reduction is not accompanied by a proportional increase in unemployment. …

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this letter 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 …

We describe trends in wages and labor force participation for the "working class" - whom we define as workers with high … growing inequality and stagnant wages for the less-educated; and we also find that labor force participation continued to …

by more labor mobility within and between EU countries, in combination with a selective immigration policy based on labor …

features of the Beveridge curve and frictional unemployment in EU countries, with a view to isolate temporary changes in the … vacancy-unemployment relationship from structural shifts affecting the efficiency of labour market matching. Second, it … crisis. The lengthening of unemployment spells appears to be a significant driver of matching efficiency especially after the …

This policy analysis paper explores the implications for the host country population of alternative immigration … that has the effect of admitting primarily low-skilled workers. The implications for the native-born population for their …