unemployment rate increased dramatically, and the labor force participation rate declined by four percentage points between 2007 … unemployment via a reduction in overall labor supply. As the crisis deepened, long-term unemployment escalated, creating … significant policy challenges. Overall unemployment has been dropping rapidly since 2013, but remains above its pre-crisis level. …

the relation between changes in employment and educational structure of the labor force in Bulgaria, which took place … recovery of the Bulgarian economy in view of the noticeable trends in the educational structure of employment in the period … with the trends being developed in other European countries in terms of the post-crisis employment of various educational …

employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline … other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force …

between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …