this context, Spain is regarded as an extreme case, due to its exceptionally high youth unemployment rates. This article …Since the beginning of the recession period in Europe, unemployment has greatly affected the young adult population. In … with higher levels of unemployment and instability during the Great Recession than others. To do this, retrospective data …

This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the …. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …

the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …