This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …

how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person's partner reduces the …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …

unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country's exposure to … globalization; (ii) corporate taxation and social insurance have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an …

In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in … conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …

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

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …