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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413806
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518535
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413609
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414176
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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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The labor market in Germany, 2000–2018 : the transformation of a notoriously rigid labor market into a role model of its own style is essentially complete
Schneider, Hilmar; Rinne, Ulf - 2019
instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139504
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The labor market in the US, 2000-2018 : recovery from the Great Recession is complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage problems
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019
labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment from the depths of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012425
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The labor market in Russia, 2000-2017 : low unemployment and high employment, but also low, volatile pay and high inequality characterize the Russian labor market
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. - 2019
and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064428
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The labor market in the US, 2000-2016 : recovery from the Great Recession is essentially complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage issues
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017
labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the nearly full recovery of unemployment from the depths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642273