This paper assesses the impact of the crisis on the NEET rate and on the youth unemployment rate (YUR) of the EU …

Unemployment in Europe has reached 10% as this was prepared, and it is over 10% in the United States at the same time …

In this article I set out to present the situation in terms of unemployment rate, the number of registered unemployed … but also the share of unemployed nationwide in the period 2020-2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate … state with a technical unemployment benefit, which led to the highest unemployment rate in the last two years, resulting in …

reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany’s unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …

In this paper we analyze the consequences of small labour-market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany …. From a theoretical point of view, small entry cohorts may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to "inverse cohort … crowding" or on the other hand increase unemployment if companies reduce jobs disproportionately. Empirically, several studies …