Happiness drops when individuals become unemployed. The negative impact of the unemployment shock, however, may differ … whether such deep psychological traits have an influence on how unemployment is perceived. It is found that unemployment has a … hypothesis that Swiss German individuals suffer more from unemployment, although for the most part, these results are without …

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment … 16 years of schooling. Evidence on the impact of formal schooling on unemployment incidence is mixed …

order to identify the causal long-run effects of post-graduation unemployment. The results show significant scarring effects … resulting in higher risks of unemployment up to 5 years later. The results imply that poor labor market performance as a …

of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …