The Great Recession was the largest recession since the Great Depression. While
unemployment rates during the Great Recession were comparable to rates observed in the …

Adding to the body of research on cross-country determinants of the informal economy, this
article studies how unemployment differences across gender drive the propensities to work …

This paper aims at analyse the NEET phenomenon (young people not in employment,
education or training) in the post-2007 financial crisis in Italy, using municipality as unit of …

This paper proposes an alternative measure for the slack of the aggregate labor market. The
natural rate of hours holds valuable information about the state of the labor market that is not …

ABSTRACT In 1979, the Levitan Commission identified discouragement as one of three
main sources of economic hardship, and recommended the development of an index to …

Guatemala is one of only three countries in America which urban population is smaller than
the rural one. United Nations estimates that in the coming years the economic structure of …

Aim: The investigation of the impact of long-term and discouraged unemployment on the
quality of life of the unemployed in urban centers and the detection of the cause of material …

After a long stretch of declines, the labor force participation rate has risen in recent months,
driven in part by an increase in the share of prime-age people flowing into employment from …

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis| research. stlouisfed. org the mid-year population,
decreased for all age groups—but at different rates. It decreased from 28.6 to 12.8 for age 65 …

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