This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labour markets. We argue that young people aged 16-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment using microdata. We argue that there is convincing...

The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth to major sources of labor market determinants, in the...

Unemployment and under-employment represented $25.8 billion in annual wages not earned in Los Angeles County, $28.2 billion in lost private sector economic activity and $4 billion in tax revenue not generated. In 2012, over a fifth of Los Angeles County's labor force was unemployed or...

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage...

Zur Evaluation des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns liegen fünf Jahre nach seiner Einführung zahlreiche fundierte Analysen vor. Die Auswirkungen des Mindestlohns auf die Arbeitszeit haben dabei eine besondere Relevanz, da sie die Einkommensentwicklung und das Arbeitsvolumen im Niedriglohnsektor...

Zur Evaluation des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns liegen fünf Jahre nach seiner Einführung zahlreiche fundierte Analysen vor. Die Auswirkungen des Mindestlohns auf die Arbeitszeit haben dabei eine besondere Relevanz, da sie die Einkommensentwicklung und das Arbeitsvolumen im Niedriglohnsektor...

A growing number of individuals now perform work in the sector known as the “sharing economy,” and their participation raises important tax and regulatory questions. In this chapter, we survey some of the key tax issues confronting individuals operating in the sharing economy in the United...

In the 1990s, Spain approved two labor reforms aimed at reducing the unemployment level and its volatility. Overall, these reforms involved two measures designed to induce firms to meet their labor needs via adjustment of permanent positions: restricting the use of temporary workers and reducing...

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage...