Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of … domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic …

employment gap under stagnation are primarily driven by fluctuations in underemployment instead of structural unemployment. Our … economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that fluctuations in the total …

theoretical explanation for why women attend college at a higher rate and earn a lower average income than men. Differential …I build an equilibrium investment-and-marriage model to explain stylized facts about education, income, and marriage …-specific relationships between age at marriage and income, as well as the evolving relationship between age at marriage and spousal income …

-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We … the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …

employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in … recessions. First, we show that the consumption risk of short-time work is considerably smaller compared to unemployment using … frictions featuring an endogenous firing and short-time work decision. In recessions, short-time work reduces the unemployment …

and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …

against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence … that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable … behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands' mothers …

This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour … BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014. We measure idiosyncratic risk in labour income by the relevant … moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …