gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental health. I show that … the negative effect of unemployment on mental health depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several … unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual employment status …

unemployment is very close to zero when unemployment is above its long term average but large and highly significant when below. We … unemployment. It cannot however match the persistence of the German unemployment rate. We conjecture that extending the model to …

changes. While employment and welfare increase in most countries, some experience higher unemployment and lower welfare. Labor …

The Spanish economy is currently plagued by a deep recession with very high unemployment. We ask how much of the … unemployment increase in Spain can be traced back to the debt deleveraging needs of Spanish households. We use provincial household … debt and sectoral unemployment data and follow Mian and Sufi (2012) to isolate the effect of household debt on Spanish …

While many commentators perceive unemployment to be a key risk factor for intimate partner violence, the empirical … estimate the effects of total and gender-specific unemployment rates on domestic violence. The analysis uses the substantial … variation in the increase in unemployment across areas, gender, and age-groups associated with the onset of the latest recession …

unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany we find that an improved … agency explains substantial part of the observed post-reform unemployment decline: 34%. If disincentive effects of the agency … discussed unemployment benefits. …

(ALMP) to fight unemployment in many countries in recent years. In contrast to traditional ALMP instruments like training … unemployed individuals to exit unemployment by entering self-employment and, thus, by creating their own jobs. In this sense … combat unemployment but also as business policy to promote entrepreneurship. The corresponding empirical literature on this …