mainly driven via STW. US unemployment rose at an unprecedented rate, but unlike in previous recessions, it was mostly driven …

has shown that parents support their children financially through an unemployment spell. In this paper, we also provide …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

seekers or those who have gone through long-periods of unemployment or inactivity, to gain some work experience and in the …

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. …

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 text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities …