persisting increases in unemployment. This paper analyses the impacts of the crisis on euro area labour markets, paying … accelerate the adjustment capacity of euro area labour markets and help reduce the current high levels of structural unemployment. …

create disincentives to work, such as high tax wedges and high unemployment benefits, or enforced reductions in working hours …

The amount of work done in the economy has been subject to a lot of debate in Finland recently. Unemployment is …

to find out whether they can deliver growth of employment and decline of unemployment in the medium run and whether they … are adverse shocks. Otherwise, adjustment would work through a fall in employment levels and an increase in unemployment …

other activities at least in some of the NMS in the past few years. In most countries the growth of unemployment has come to … a halt but structural features have remained unchanged or even deteriorated. Long-term unemployment has become a serious … countries. Youth unemployment is particularly high in the Slovak Republic and in Poland. The labour markets in Southeast Europe …

The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has … relationship between the share of young people in the total population and the youth unemployment rate, i.e. the smaller the share …

This paper revisits the empirical relationship between unemployment and output, and its evolution following the … the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). First, the negative correlation between output and unemployment (Okun’s law …. Focusing on the euro area, the financial distress seems to have altered the dynamics of output and unemployment mainly at lower …