While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …

performance, like unemployment or wage rates, show little departure from recent norms over the first few months of the crisis. The …

. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for thirty years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively … subdued through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment … seen before the recession. -- labour market ; recession ; unemployment ; wages …

been met by in–flows of cross–border workers and, to a lesser extent, immigration. Unemployment has remained low compared …

After a decade of structural reforms, unemployment rates have tripled in Argentina. This paper is concerned with the … measurement of unemployment risk and its distribution. We show the importance of considering re-incidence in the measurement of … unemployment risk and develop a methodolgy to do that. Our estimates for Argentina show that, though the typical unemployment spell …

After a decade of structural reforms, unemployment rates have tripled in Argentina. This paper is concerned with the … measurement of unemployment risk and its distribution. We show the importance of considering re-incidence in the measurement of … unemployment risk and develop a methodolgy to do that. Our estimates for Argentina show that, though the typical unemployment spell …

Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … of unemployment benefits when unemployment rates in the region are higher. Hence, they must distinguish if the longer …