Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment …

world, it was not spared from the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis. The economy has not recovered and employment …

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

crisis later that year. The labor market recovery was slow until 2013, when net immigration, employment growth, and … unemployment declines all picked up. Labor market liquidity has remained low since the 2008 downturn, with rates of job starts, job …

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 …

women), the resilience of employment during recessions, and the dramatic emergence of very-short-term employment contracts …

have been the massive improvement in the education of the labor force (especially of women), the resilience of employment … during the Great Recession (albeit with a very late recovery), and the dramatic emergence of very short-term employment …

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

employment effects of broadband infrastructure roll-out and questions about who exactly are the winners and losers in the labor …