The Brief investigates the role of policy uncertainty in explaining the persistently high unemployment rate in the euro … area after the Great Recession and the different impact of uncertainty on flows into and out of unemployment. …

. In the US, the unemployment rate and the share of long-term unemployment grew very fast, during the crisis, thereby … unemployment? In other words, is the US labour market in the process of becoming more "European" in terms of size, composition and … dynamics? What would thus be the consequences in terms of outlook? This brief analyses the unemployment response to the crisis …

On the face of it, Austria’s labour market performs very well, which is reflected in one of the lowest unemployment … rates in the EU. However, while many of the euro area members have recently succeeded in reducing unemployment, the Austrian …. In addition the unemployment statistics are distorted by the relatively low labour force participation of older workers …

feature of the Finnish economy compared with that of Sweden and Denmark is the higher level of unemployment. In the early 1990 … adapt. The spectacular recovery of the Finnish economy has pushed up labour demand. While unemployment has fallen back from …

trend rates. Unemployment notably continues to rise and its pace of increase has accelerated in the most recent quarter to …