unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse … evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment. …

made in terms of several macroeconomic indicators, GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, Current Account Balances, and debt. …

behaviour of youth labour markets. We provide a comparison of the behaviour of youth unemployment rates, employment … countries, open unemployment is less of a problem: the major problem faced by young people is employment in the informal sector … employment". After a brief review of the literature, the paper uses panel data to estimate equations for unemployment rates …

This paper investigates the impact of the GFC on youth unemployment and long term unemployment. In particular, we study … whether the GFC had a bigger impact on youths than adults, and whether youth unemployment rates increased due to an increase … in youth wages relative to adult wages. To anticipate our results, we find that the youth unemployment rates increased …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …