from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007 … food stamps and other safety net programs. The share of families with income below the poverty line nearly doubles. These …

peak at 12 months. 5) The probability of a wage change is positively correlated with the unemployment rate and with the … consumer price inflation rate. -- Wage stickiness ; micro-level evidence ; measurement error …

, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …

. After controlling for demographic attributes, health, unemployment status, household size, agricultural hukou (household … poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …