achieves full employment and the other suffers long-run unemployment. Own and spill-over effects of changes in policy …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …

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 …

a highly indebted open economy. In contrast to the standard open economy framework, search unemployment and wage … intertemporal welfare gain, even though unemployment increases strongly in the short run. A 50% haircut of foreign debt … significantly reduces the initial response of the unemployment rate. In case of a temporary productivity shock, sticky wages imply …

unemployment. Utilizing this framework, the paper provides different empirical identification strategies in order to disentangle … the various means through which unemployment alters both the well-being and utility of an individual and shows, by … reviewing some of the recent research in which I have participated, that unemployment primarily threatens an individual …

’s skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an … educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in … the economy. The government can correct for this distortion by use of differentiated tuition fees or tax rates. …

outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment, when profit sharing is also a part of the compensation schemes in … wage effect. For equilibrium unemployment the effects of outsourcing cost and profit sharing are ambiguous both in case of … the absence or presence of outsourcing and in this case lower outsourcing cost will decrease unemployment. -- Flexible …