The Brief investigates the role of policy uncertainty in explaining the persistently high unemployment rate in the euro … area after the Great Recession and the different impact of uncertainty on flows into and out of unemployment. …

while measures of relative poverty do not appear to have clearly identifiable drivers, income per capita and unemployment … particular, the share of long-term unemployment on total unemployment stands out as the most significant driver. The analysis …

. In the US, the unemployment rate and the share of long-term unemployment grew very fast, during the crisis, thereby … unemployment? In other words, is the US labour market in the process of becoming more "European" in terms of size, composition and … dynamics? What would thus be the consequences in terms of outlook? This brief analyses the unemployment response to the crisis …