The Italian Great Recession has a double-dip pattern. After the start of the global financial crisis, Italy experienced … a second serious recession in 2011 because of the sovereign debt crisis. The reaction of Italian governments was mild at …

result of responsible fiscal behavior. Nevertheless, failure to withdraw the region's anticrisis fiscal stimulus in a timely …

There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of … both in the build up to, and during the Great Recession. The Irish case is particularly interesting because it has been one …

This paper studies the mechanisms driving the persistently high unemployment rate during the last recession and mild … recovery. Previous studies have examined the demographic aspect of the recession. We focus on specific industries. Consequently …, we propose a methodology to decompose changes in the unemployment rate into worker inflows and outflows across industry …