-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …