A major labour market challenge following the Great Recession is to avoid an increase in long-term unemployment and … thus the structural unemployment rate. Active labour market policies may play an important role in this respect. We … also characterised by high flows into and out of employment, implying that most unemployment spells are rather short and …

Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only one … weakness has led to the highest level of long-term unemployment in the U.S. in the postwar period, and a blurring of the … distinction between unemployment and nonparticipation. We show that flows from nonparticipation to unemployment are important for …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

Abkehr von einer einseitig sozialpolitisch orientierten Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Ihr Ziel war aber keinesfalls …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …