. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for thirty years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively … subdued through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment …

Using a longitudinal data of British youths, this paper explores the consequences of past parental unemployment on the … current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important … unemployment compared to paternal unemployment. In our final table, we show changes in adolescents' well-being and self …

This paper studies the responses of unemployment in Germany, the United States and Britain to the Great Recession of … suffered from recession but no structural problems; the United States suffered from structural unemployment during the recovery …; Germany exhibited a much better performance both during and after the recession. The rise in OECD unemployment is broken down …

Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market … states act as key determinants of this variation. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical … over the last 35 years, we decompose unemployment variation into parts accounted for by changes in rates of job loss, job …