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 …

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is …

unemployment can be attributed to the early retirement policies that were implemented in Europe from the 1970s up until the early … between turbulence and institutions explains most of the reduction in labor force participation among older workers in Europe … over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in …

, 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 …

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

In spring 2013, youth unemployment in the EU peaked and then declined sharply. Yet at least one in every six members of … the economically active population between age 15 and 24 in the EU is still unemployed, and the unemployment rate among … labor market has developed since 2013. The decline in unemployment was primarily caused both by a drop in the number of …

The paper deals first with the characters of unemployment and inflation and their trend in the EMU. Then it underlines … that EMU's institutions tend to reduce inflation to a minimum, while limiting fiscal interventions at the national and the …

Arbeitslosigkeit (Braun/Weber, 2016) glaubte man überwunden. Die Arbeitslosenquote lag im Zeitraum 1960 bis 1973 nur einmal - im Jahr …

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tend to push up the unemployment …