The youth population bulge is often mentioned in discussions of youth unemployment and unrest in developing countries … to fall. Evidence on the link between youth bulges and youth unemployment is mixed. It should not be assumed that … declines in the relative size of the youth population will translate into falling youth unemployment without further policy …

The youth population bulge is often mentioned in discussions of youth unemployment and unrest in developing countries … unemployment is mixed. It should not be assumed that declines in the relative size of the youth population will translate into … falling youth unemployment in coming decades without further policy measures to improve the youth labor market. …

We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from … 1996 to 2012. To this we scrutinize both a direct and an indirect effect of aging on unemployment. The direct effect … includes a decomposition of the East German unemployment rate into three components considering changes in the workforce's age …

temporarily reduce unemployment and increase wages in periphery countries at the cost of somewhat higher unemployment in receiving …

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 …