failed to improve the responsiveness of real wages to unemployment; they were associated with a slower transition from …

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 …

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 …

employment generation have been disappointing. Most worryingly, unemployment is currently among the highest in the world. While … the proximate cause of high unemployment is that prevailing wages levels are too high, the deeper cause lies elsewhere …. High unemployment and low growth are both ultimately the result of the shrinkage of the non-mineral tradable sector since …

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 …