persisting increases in unemployment. This paper analyses the impacts of the crisis on euro area labour markets, paying … accelerate the adjustment capacity of euro area labour markets and help reduce the current high levels of structural unemployment. …

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 …

other activities at least in some of the NMS in the past few years. In most countries the growth of unemployment has come to … a halt but structural features have remained unchanged or even deteriorated. Long-term unemployment has become a serious … countries. Youth unemployment is particularly high in the Slovak Republic and in Poland. The labour markets in Southeast Europe …