One of the main puzzles associated with the Great Recession has been the muted increase in recorded unemployment in the … unemployment, but also means that (i) significant numbers of workers are supplying fewer hours of work than they would like and (ii …

increase during 2012, though unemployment was stable. The paper also investigates the microeconomic determinants of …

Recession. The major finding is that the sharp increase in unemployment and decrease in employment is largely concentrated on …This paper considers some of the implications of the increase in UK unemployment since the beginning of the Great …