This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

obtain longitudinal estimations suggesting statistically significant negative effects from unemployment on self …-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the …'s unemployment doubled as a consequence of the financial crisis. Unemployment seems to be more detrimental to health/mental health in …

This is the first study to evaluate the effects of early pension withdrawal policies on tenures on unemployment … half-a-million Australians who found themselves newly on an unemployment payment in the initial months of the COVID-19 … pandemic, between April and June 2020, resulted in a 32 per cent lower exit rate from unemployment benefits inside the first …

to the coronavirus pandemic. These measures have caused dramatic increases in unemployment in the short run, with an …. We estimate the relationship between unemployment, a widely accepted proxy for economic climate, and mortality in …, sex, and cause of death collected for the years 1979-2017, we find no relationship between unemployment and mortality on …

.e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a salaried job (i ….e., switching from salaried employment to unemployment). Meanwhile, leaving self-employment has no consequences for selfreported …

(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …