unemployment rates affect the likelihood of divorce. With 89,340 observations over the 1978-2006 period for 7633 couples from the …In light of the current economic crisis, we estimate hazard models of divorce to determine how state and national … 1979 NLSY, we find mixed evidence on whether increases in the unemployment rate lead to overall increases in the likelihood …

One of the strongest trends in recent macroeconomic modeling of labor market fluctuations is to treat unemployment … of Unemployment,quot; i.e., the extent to which increased unemployment during a recession arises from an increase in the … number of unemployment spells versus an increase in their duration. After broadly reviewing the previous literature, we …

This short note emphasizes and illustrates two basic points: (1) The private costs of unemployment, i.e., the costs … cause of the permanently high unemployment rate in the United States. (2) The social costs of unemployment, i.e., the costs … of unemployment to the nation as a whole regardless of how they are distributed, must be judged by considering the …

unemployment and that rising homeownership in OECD countries since the 1960s provides a key explanation for the rise in the natural … rate of unemployment over the same time period. Recent tests of the Oswald thesis have found the opposite. This study … (private, public, and rent-free) and by examining data from Australia, rather than the U.S. We demonstrate that the recent anti …

allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the … extremely fragile. We conclude first that the impact of unilateral divorce laws remains unclear. Second, extending Wolfers …

in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

(partly due to “banking” benefits for future use), a rise in employment, and a decline in divorce rates. We then specify and … estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms …