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