, but its youth unemployment is one of the highest in the world. To help understand this duality, we employ synthetic panels …-to-adult unemployment gap. We find that a large part of the Uruguayan gap cannot be explained by standard variables, which opens the … possibility that other uncontrolled factors, including labor market institutions, might be at play …

worsening of the unemployment gender gap during the pandemic, but we find that women were more likely to uptake short-time work …

a high-unemployment urban area carries with it a large welfare penalty. Less stable jobs, slower skill accumulation …. In contrast, several policies that encourage people to move to low-unemployment urban areas increase these welfare losses …

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

The job guarantee is a viable policy option for tackling both unemployment and underemployment. Hyman P. Minsky was one …

Active labour market policies are commonly used tool to fight unemployment. In the early 1960's all Scandinavian …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …