stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market … temporary severing of employment relationships followed by a phase of more standard labour market search and matching, we use … persistence in depressed employment rates. …

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this letter focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …

"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while … 80 percent of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to some of … those waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that the labour market might rebound quickly …