dissatisfied with their job, the unemployed's well-being is statistically significantly higher. Thus, it appears that unemployment … effects as males and particularly married males suffer more from unemployment. Also, a quarter of the unemployed report that … they feel social pressure due to unemployment. These findings suggest that social approval plays some role in the impact of …

proceedings outstanding against them. We employ a set of explanatory variables including long-term unemployment, socially excluded … the prevalence of debt enforcement proceedings, while long-term unemployment, the number of socially excluded localities …

-Mortensen-Pissarides model. Log linearization under- states the mean and volatility of unemployment, but overstates the volatility of labor … market tightness and the magnitude of the unemployment-vacancy correlation. Log linearization also understates the impulse … responses in unemployment in recessions, but overstates the responses in the market tightness in booms. Finally, the second …

-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …

's technology choice is embedded in a search theoretic framework for unemployment. More advanced technology is assumed to have a … increase in the unemployment benefit leads to an increase in the equilibrium wage rate, giving an incentive to firms to choose … a more advanced technology. Thus, this result regarding unemployment insurance in models with wage posting carries …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

. Spain is a paradigmatic example, with high unemployment rates and very low workforce reentry rates for unemployed workers …. Poor demand is typically blamed for this problem, but the interaction of pension rules and unemployment insurance may also … play an important role in this outcome. Generous unemployment benefits, lax search requirements for the unemployed and …

over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in … unemployment can be attributed to the early retirement policies that were implemented in Europe from the 1970s up until the early … aiming to explain the European unemployment problem. …