for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …

US state are a precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in that state. The elasticity exceeds unity: A doubling … of the rate of home-ownership in a US state is followed in the long-run by more than a doubling of the later unemployment …

pay and the local unemployment rate -- in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other …'s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …