Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States is 'tight' because unemployment rates are low. They …, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage …

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 …

Although there is a substantial literature indicating that unemployment and joblessness have profound adverse impacts …

conventional measure of the unemployment rate (that is, the number of individuals who are not working at all and actively searching … working part time who want a full-time job) and the extent of hidden unemployment (that is, people who are not actively ….S. labor market slack and show that underemployment and hidden unemployment currently account for the bulk of the U …

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 …

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 …

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

Following Phillip's original work on the UK, applied research on unemployment and wages has been dominated by the … rate of unemployment. This 'wage curve' is found to have an elasticity of approximately -0.1. Contrary to the Phillips …

regional (or industry) unemployment. This "wage curve" is estimated using microeconomic data for Britain, the US, Canada, Korea …, Austria, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Norway, and Germany, The average unemployment elasticity of pay is approximately -0 …

1) Fear of unemployment substantially depresses pay in both countries …3) The unemployment elasticity of pay averages -0.1 in the UK and apparently zero in the US …