for the years to come. We estimate long-term non-employment and its duration by means of Italian longitudinal databases of … administrative origin. Long-term non-employment of men stands at 1.6 million individuals in 2012, about the size of male official … drawbacks in the strategy advocated for many years by the EU Commission to promote youth employment. …

; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect …

provide a comprehensive evaluation of a reform that softened the minimum employment record condition to qualify for UI … benefits in France after 2009. Using administrative panel data matching employment and unemployment spells, we first provide … level – through a jump in transitions from employment to unemployment – and at the macro level – through the scheduling of …

, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of employment outcomes - including permanent layoffs, which generate large … examine how these employment patterns vary across different states, according to the timing and severity of virus caseloads … economic activity reduce employment rates concurrently but do not seem to have lingering effects once relaxed. In contrast …