While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/2019, the incidence of long …-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for >1 year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover, the COVID …-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term unemployment. This paper explores the factors associated with long …

Using eight waves of the European Social Survey, we analysed how the local unemployment rate influences the well … unemployment rate). We find that the satisfaction of unemployed people (relative to employed people) is lower when the unemployment … regarding the happiness scores. Our results do not support the “social norm of unemployment” hypothesis that states that the …

-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings …. Moreover, one percentage point increase in the difference in the unemployment rate is associated with an increase in net …

, inflation and unemployment, we detect a wrong sign in the response of inflation to contractionary monetary policy shocks … significant unemployment inflation trade-off emerges. These conclusions are confirmed by using industrial production instead of … 1999-2019, when the Federal Funds Rate and the Euro-Dollar exchange rate are added to the VAR model inflation shows …

Using a New Keynesian Phillips curve, we document the rapid and persistent increase in the natural rate of unemployment …, 𝑢𝑡 ∗ , in the aftermath of the pandemic and characterize its implications for inflation dynamics. While the bulk of the … inflation surge is attributed to temporary supply factors, we also find an important role for current and expected negative …

Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and …

In the present paper it will be pointed out with panel data that inflation worsens income distribution, but not in a … linear way. More specifically, at lower inflation levels as inflation goes up, then income distribution worsens more rapidly … than in the case of higher inflation levels (hyperinflation). The sample covers annually most western European countries …