Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test … the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates … related to unemployment for South African adults as to be expected in richer countries. Reported well-being levels are shown …

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

, unemployment exhibits persistence in the sense of duration dependence: the probability of obtaining a job decreases in the length …

This paper explores the connection between unemployment and subjective well-being in Finland by using cross …-sections for the years 1990, 1996 and 2000 from World Values Surveys. An unprecedented increase in the national unemployment rate … (from 3 to 17 per cent) did not produce a drop in the mean level of subjective well-being. Experiencing unemployment …

employment-based dispersion index] has an effect on unemployment. Among the findings of this paper we emphasize that sectoral … employment shifts affect unemployment both in the long- and in the short-term. Moreover, we find that the effect of sectoral … reallocation on the unemployment rate occurs only after some delay. …