-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive amount rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers reporting positive values varies pro …-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is consistent with estimated …

additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …

The sustained rise in German unemployment since 1973 poses a problem of critical importance for the world economy …. Fewer than two decades ago, Germany boasted an average unemployment rate of under 1% and imported labor to relieve chronic … labor shortages. By the mid-1980s, unemployment had risen to over 8 percent of the labor force. This paper investigates some …