Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the labour market and how employment and unemployment have been …

to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the labour market and how employment and unemployment have been …

In the midst of sharply rising long-term unemployment, a series of unemployment benefit (UB) eligibility extensions … ‘laws of economics' to warn that the extensions may be responsible for much of the current unemployment crisis. This … eligibility rules are not effectively enforced, so any income replacement must reduce work incentives and increase unemployment …

While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is … reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the Great Recession largely responds to the …

While Spain has traditionally underperformed its European peers in terms of labor productivity, the trend reverses … after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the Great Recession is shaped largely, albeit not …

This paper assesses the impact the Great Recession had on individuals' transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland …. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from employment to … unemployment increased. The results indicate that young people are much less likely to exit unemployment but, at the same time …