This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …

This study evaluates the long-term cost of unemployment in Finland by focusing on the deep recession period of the … early 1990s. The number of plant closures increased sharply during the recession and the unemployment rate rose by more than … 13 percentage points. In the analysis, prime working-age men who face unemployment due to plant closure are matched to …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal …. Using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data the paper reveals that unemployment decreases the mental health of spouses …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

We evaluate a wage subsidy program that is targeted at long-term unemployed workers in Germany. We use an alternative … significant impact of the availability of the subsidy on labor market out­comes of the target group. Even though our analysis …

-insurance from savings. Exploiting variation from unemployment benefits eligibility, we also provide evidence on the mitigating role … of formal unemployment insurance using a Regression Discontinuity design exploiting the cutoff from the unemployment …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature, our results suggest that unemployment and social factors are important determinants of … suicide mortality. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while relatively strict …