Two years after the crisis broke out its impact on the daily lives of millions of families, children and young people is clearly perceptible. Although the impact of the crisis is by no means uniform across the EU, evidence suggests that children and families are being disproportionally affected....

Poor performance in the cotton driven agriculture export sector, the major export earner in BENIN, affected the country potential income; the ensuing economic downturn increased the vulnerability of poor households (more than 70%) of which are involved in the primary (mostly agricultural) sector;...

This working paper: (i) describes recent labour market trends; (ii) analyzes how young people are experiencing a double employment crisis as a result of the demographic phenomenon known as the ‘youth bulge,' which aggravates the already low demand for labour during the economic downturn; (iii)...

This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey and state-level unemployment rates to examine the effects of the Great Recession on teenagers' activities. I present results by gender and gender by race/ethnicity. Over the...