This brief reviews the evolution of the US and the European labour markets since the beginning of the financial crisis. In the US, the unemployment rate and the share of long-term unemployment grew very fast, during the crisis, thereby reaching levels close to those in the EU. Does that mean...

The global crisis has taken its toll on the EU’s prime position in international trade. While the EU still has the largest relative market shares, its position has deteriorated since the crisis, much more so than the US, and its comparative advantage in knowledge-intensive goods has been...

This report presents for the first time data on Belgium and Luxembourg treated as separate countries instead of the Belgium/Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU). The long series for EA12, EU15, and IC24 have become obsolete and are henceforth discontinued.