) aided the adjustment. The Covid-19 downturn resulted in an unprecedented decline in employment, and a steep rise in … unemployment and non-participation. Despite the severity of the Covid-19 shock, by December 2021 most key measures of labor market …

The EU in 2020 is in the midst of a triple crisis of unemployment, public health and environmental collapse. These … policies targeting unemployment have considerable positive impact, beyond direct social aid. We suggest creation of a European … work standard employment of last resort, based on local economic needs (including industrial transition). Pilot projects …

This article compares inequality in employment across demographic groups in the Great Recession and the COVID-19 …-educated groups. We discuss long-term effects of employment inequality and how these findings are relevant to debates about policy … pandemic. We develop a measure to capture both how much employment declines during a recession and the persistence of …

We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent … pandemic, both the level and the socioeconomic composition of employment quickly returned to normal. In contrast, we find … considerable negative long-term employment effects on people who were non-employed when the crisis hit. We argue that these …

This paper studies the impact of employment subsidies in a simple macroeconomic model with imperfect competition and … unemployment due to wage rigidity. COmputed with a simple formula that is robust to the specification of imperfect competition and … wage rigidity, subsidies can make an economy reach the Walrasian equilibrium. Moreover, theintroduction of employment …

social mobility and inequality, among other important dimensions of income distribution that are jointly determined. The …