For mainstream economics, rigidities in the labour market are the primary determinants of high and persistent long-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets would not only help to smooth normal business...

This report provides an introduction to the concept of precarious employment and summarizes empirical findings in the Canadian literature. Precarious workers have poor physical and mental health, delay forming relationships and starting families, are often underemployed and isolated from their...

The present paper studies whether labour market deregulation is correlated with employment creation in Italy and the decline of trade union power. Our hypothesis is that the correlation does not hold, and that flexible contracts facilitated the dichotomy between industry and tertiary, without...

This report uses estimates from the Congressional Budget Office to project an unemployment scenario for the Pandemic Recession. We go on to use detailed unemployment and homeless data from the 2008 Great Recession to estimate the linkage between unemployment and homelessness and forecast the...

This report estimates the demography, occupations, industries, and communities of California workers who have a high risk of unemployment in the 2020 Covid recession so that they and their employers can be located and provided with timely and effective assistance for preventing economic...