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. …

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …

for immigrants than for natives: a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 0.61 and 0 …

Of the recent economic developments in Switzerland, the increased unemployment level deserves special attention. In the … 1990s Switzerland's long tradition of low (almost nonexistent) unemployment was broken. Although still below the levels … experienced in most industrialized countries, Switzerland's recent higher unemployment rate has caused speculation about the …

in more detail labour flexibility, namely labour market flows, long-term unemployment and labour force deprivation. The … third part addresses wage flexibility and relative wages, with special attention paid to regional unemployment elasticity of … labour mobility, labour deprivation due to long-term unemployment, skill mismatch and emerging signs of inflexibility in wage …

Young people have been hit hard by unemployment during the Irish recession. While much research has been undertaken to … unemployment and the associated challenges. This paper attempts to fill this gap by comparing the profile of transitions to work … transition of the youth from unemployment to employment fell dramatically. The fall is not due to changes in the composition or …

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 …

-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …

cyclical job loss and unemployment fell disproportionately on young and unskilled workers. The paper identifies, by age, gender …