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Long-Term Unemployment After the Great Recession: Causes and remedies

Samuel Bentolila, Marcel Jansen 14 November 2016

This eBook examines the rise of long-term unemployment in post-recession Europe and examines its causes and the measures taken to address it.

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Contents

Introduction
Samuel Bentolila and Marcel Jansen

Active labour market policies and long-term unemployment
David Card, Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber

Addressing long-term unemployment in the aftermath of the Great Recession
Lawrence F. Katz, Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

Long-term effects of unemployment: What can we learn from plant-closure studies?
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Long-term unemployment in Denmark
Torben M Andersen

Long-term unemployment in France
Pierre Cahuc and Stéphane Carcillo

Long-term unemployment in Germany
Alexander Spermann

Long-term unemployment in Italy after the Great Recession
Federico Cingano, Giovanni Pica and Alfonso Rosolia

Long-term unemployment in the Netherlands: An age-related phenomenon
Jan C. van Ours

Long-term unemployment in Poland
Piotr Lewandowski and Iga Magda

Long-term unemployment in Spain
Samuel Bentolila, J. Ignacio García-Pérez, and Marcel Jansen

How long has this been going on? Long-term unemployment in the UK
Mike Elsby, Jennifer C. Smith and Jonathan Wadsworth

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