This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labour markets. We argue
that young people aged 16–24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using …

Scholarly interest in job search has grown significantly over the years and can be located in
diverse research streams: namely, economics, sociology and industrial/organizational …

Since the mid-1990s European welfare states have undergone a major transformation.
Relative to the post-war years, today they put less emphasis on income protection and more …

Active labor-market policies (ALMPs) have developed significantly over the past two
decades across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

Most of the recent literature on the effects of labor market institutions on wages and
employment draws on reforms used as natural experiments. This is a significant …

Active labor market programs (ALMPs) are used to reduce the risk of unemployment and to
increase the earnings capacity of workers. Particular interventions include employment …

What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?" Developments in Research
Methods and their Application"(volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways …

We classify social security pension systems in three dimensions: actuarial versus non-
actuarial, funded versus unfunded, and defined-benefit versus defined-contribution systems …

This book grew out of our research on the macroeconomic causes of unemployment, rising
in e qual ity, and the rather lackluster growth and productivity per for mance in Western Eu …