increased government purchases crowd out private consumption? 2) do increased government purchases reduce unemployment? Farmer … also reduce unemployment …

This paper examines the behavior of real GDP (levels and growth rates), unemployment, inflation, bank credit, and real … America and 1990s Japan are not ubiquitous, GDP growth and housing prices are significantly lower and unemployment higher in …

--measured with unemployment rates--and environmental concern. Building on recent research that finds internet search terms to be … useful predictors of health epidemics and economic activity, we find that an increase in a state's unemployment rate … decreases Google searches for "global warming" and increases searches for "unemployment," and that the effect differs according …

and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …

poor labor market to a better labor market. We find that modifications raise the unemployment rate by about 0.5 percentage … individuals losing skills as unemployment duration is longer …

which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of … unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2010 to investigate the …

foregone unemployment insurance about equally erode the rewards from retaining a job, or starting a new one …