The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has … relationship between the share of young people in the total population and the youth unemployment rate, i.e. the smaller the share …

the EU 15 countries in terms of employment rates, employment patterns and unemployment. There are persistently high shares … of long-term unemployed, youth unemployment is twice as high as in the EU-15 and there are diverging trends in female and … lower in the other countries; but employment rates are very low (and, conversely, unemployment is high) for the low …

between labour supply and labour market institutions, assess how well labour supply reflects the demand for labour in the euro …