This paper draws on household survey data from countries of all income levels to measure how average unemployment rates … vary with income per capita. We document that unemployment is increasing with GDP per capita. Furthermore, we show that … per capita, rather than by high-educated workers, whose unemployment rates are not correlated with income. To interpret …

happiness research is able to contribute important insights for economics. We report how the economic variables income …, unemployment and inflation affect happiness as well as how institutional factors, in particular the type of democracy and the …

This paper documents the role of unemployment and earnings risk in reconciling evidence in payoff differentials between … the role of lower unemployment risk in self-employment. We decompose earnings risk dynamics by estimating a life …

Using the Reserve Bank of Australia's MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in …

to unemployment dynamics in Australia is found to be much milder and substantially lower than that of monetary policy …We develop uncertainty indices for the United States and Australia based on freely accessible, real time Google Trends … significant contribution to unemployment dynamics by GTU shocks in the United States. Differently, the contribution of GTU shocks …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

attitudes. Along with the subjects’ receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position … differences in the mechanism: Misperception triggers income dissatisfaction for both men and women, but the former are much more …

and age distribution across countries in a fundamental way. In this paper we focus on the income consequences of these … changes for the global income distribution. Key in this respect are changes in the so-called demographic dividend associated … demographic dividend to income projections. Our findings are as follows. First, show that historically the impact of demography on …