precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in that state. The elasticity exceeds unity: a doubling of the rate of home …-ownership in a U.S. state is followed in the long-run by more than a doubling of the later unemployment rate. What mechanism might …

uses microeconomic data to examine the employment consequences of unionization. The paper addresses this issue with a new … association between poor employment performance and the presence of trade unions. The union employment growth differential is …

Previous literature has found that both unemployment and inflation lower happiness. This paper extends the literature … interest rates. I find, conventionally, that both higher unemployment and higher inflation lower happiness. Interest rates are … that unemployment depresses well-being more than inflation. The least educated and the old are more concerned about …

the flow of workers from Eastern Europe, the fear of unemployment has risen in the UK which appears to have contained wage … rate of unemployment …

pay and the local unemployment rate -- in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other …'s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …

self-employment rate and the unemployment rate. It is also shown that the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs …This paper describes measurement of a self-employment rate and the important role the agricultural sector plays in any … analysis of the determinants of self-employment. The determinants of the self-employment rate are modeled using a panel of 23 …

results are contrasted with those from a comparable sample from the US from 1977-1988. 1) Fear of unemployment substantially … upwards than downwards.3) The unemployment elasticity of pay averages -0.1 in the UK and apparently zero in the US.4) Wages …

This paper, which follows in an LSE tradition begun by Phillips and Sargan, examines the role of unemployment in … a variety of data sets as a check on the robustness of results, and 3) studies the effects of unemployment on the real … curve. The curve has a negative gradient at low levels of unemployment, but becomes horizontal at relatively high levels of …

in 2010 that is not matched by declines in happiness measures (positive affect). The fear of unemployment obtained from …