and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

Although there is a substantial literature indicating that unemployment and joblessness have profound adverse impacts … on individuals' health and wellbeing, there is relatively little evidence of their impact on sleep. Using data for over 3 ….5 million individuals in the United States over the period 2006-2019 from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS …

insurance (UI) duration increases unemployment length and impacts worker physical and mental health. These effects vary by …Using administrative data for Upper Austrian workers from 2003--2013, we show that an extension in unemployment …

The relationship between unemployment and health continues to absorb social scientists. The primary reason is the … potential significance of an association. If a substantial deterioration in aggregate health is related to economic downturns …-series relationship between unemployment and low birthweight with monthly data from the state of Tennessee from 1970 through 1989. The …

, family status, and employment. The paper presents an aggregate time-series analysis of unemployment and infant health that … of low-birthweight births is the health outcome. Because we are able to control for the race-specific percentage of women … who begin care in the first trimester as well as the percentage of births to unmarried mothers, the unemployment rate as a …

This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …

rates. This paper examines the short- to medium-term changes in health, health care access, and health care utilization … longitudinal data on a wide variety of health-related measures and outcomes, we show that job loss results in worse self …-reported health, including mental health, but is not associated with statistically significant increases in a variety of specific …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro … economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic … effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying …