Czech unemployment rate has been one of the lowest in Europe. In this paper we provide a microperspective on the Czech … investigate the determinants of transitions between employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The paper consists of two … parts. The first part examines the Czech labour market with respect to unemployment and unemployment duration. In the second …

milestone, I compare labor market outcomes until the age of 37 of children whose parents had an unemployment spell shortly … before and after the track choice. Early parental unemployment lowers the child's probability of holding a university degree … and this difference cannot be explained by different access to family resources. I show that early parental unemployment …

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the inter-generational and long-lasting consequences of parental unemployment …

The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has … relationship between the share of young people in the total population and the youth unemployment rate, i.e. the smaller the share …

these trends. High unemployment and unstable contracts, common in Southern Europe, depress fertility, particularly of … younger women. To increase lifetime income though early skill-acquisition and minimize unemployment risk, young women postpone …