With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate … identify potential areas of future research. -- unemployment insurance ; unemployment dynamics ; job search ; labor market …

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 …