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The relationship between recessions and health : economic recessions seem to reduce overall mortality rates, but increase suicides and mental health problems
Drydakis, Nick - 2016
Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …
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Unemployment benefits and unemployment : the challenge of unemployment benefits is to protect workers while minimizing undesirable side effects
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2014
recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having …
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The relationship between recessions and health : economic recessions seem to reduce overall mortality rates, but increase suicides and mental health problems
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254457
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Optimal government spending and unemployment
Linnemann, Ludger; Schabert, Andreas - 2008 - This version: February 29, 2008
We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …
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How do social networks affect labor markets? : job-referral networks can make labor markets more productive and efficient but may increase the importance of luck in job matches
Schmutte, Ian - 2016
Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they help workers obtain employment after displacement and secure higher-paying jobs. They can also match highly-skilled workers to more productive employment. Inside the firm,...
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Structural or cyclic? : labor markets in recessions : how should policy respond to higher unemployment?
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
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Recruiting intensity : recruiting intensity is critical for understanding fluctuations in the labor market
Faberman, R. Jason - 2014
When hiring new workers, employers use a wide variety of different recruiting methods in addition to posting a vacancy announcement, such as adjusting education, experience or technical requirements, or offering higher wages. The intensity with which employers make use of these alternative...
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The labor market in the US : 2000-2020 : Covid-19 ended the longest US economic expansion, pushing unemployment to its highest level with a slow and incomplete recovery
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
remarkable drop in the labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment after …
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The transformations of the French labor market : 2000-2021 : the workforce is now much better educated, but crises have magnified unemployment, underemployment, and low-income work
Askenazy, Philippe - 2022
women), the resilience of employment during recessions, and the dramatic emergence of very-short-term employment contracts …
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Relative deprivation in the labor market : the choice of reference group crucially determines subjective deprivation and thus affects labor market behavior
Verme, Paolo - 2017
Why do different population groups (e.g. rural vs. urban, youth vs. elderly and men vs. women) experience the same objective labor status differently? One hypothesis is that people are more concerned with relative deprivation than objective deprivation and they value their own status relative to...
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