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

-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive amount rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers reporting positive values varies pro …-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is consistent with estimated …

Previous literature has found that both unemployment and inflation lower happiness. This paper extends the literature … interest rates. I find, conventionally, that both higher unemployment and higher inflation lower happiness. Interest rates are … that unemployment depresses well-being more than inflation. The least educated and the old are more concerned about …

the flow of workers from Eastern Europe, the fear of unemployment has risen in the UK which appears to have contained wage … rate of unemployment …

additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …

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 …

self-employment rate and the unemployment rate. It is also shown that the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs …

results are contrasted with those from a comparable sample from the US from 1977-1988. 1) Fear of unemployment substantially … upwards than downwards.3) The unemployment elasticity of pay averages -0.1 in the UK and apparently zero in the US.4) Wages …

This paper, which follows in an LSE tradition begun by Phillips and Sargan, examines the role of unemployment in … a variety of data sets as a check on the robustness of results, and 3) studies the effects of unemployment on the real … curve. The curve has a negative gradient at low levels of unemployment, but becomes horizontal at relatively high levels of …

The sustained rise in German unemployment since 1973 poses a problem of critical importance for the world economy …. Fewer than two decades ago, Germany boasted an average unemployment rate of under 1% and imported labor to relieve chronic … labor shortages. By the mid-1980s, unemployment had risen to over 8 percent of the labor force. This paper investigates some …