We develop a measure of chronic joblessness among prime-age men and women in the United States - termed the detachment rate - that identifies those who have been out of the labor force for more than a year. We show that the detachment rate more than doubled for men since the early 1980s and rose...

This profile, prepared in the course of START technical assistance, outlines regional characteristics. Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean and one of the twenty regions of Italy, with a population of approximately 1.6 million inhabitants. Sulcis Iglesiente is one of the...