educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers’ unemployment is causal for offsprings’ employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of … domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …

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

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment …