--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 …

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

recovered but unemployment lingered). This paper presents a model that captures these three facts. The key elements of the model …

-market recovery from financial crises is characterized by either higher unemployment ("jobless recovery") or a lower real wage …

This paper examines the impact of exposure to higher unemployment rates in the pre-retirement years on subsequent …

We propose a novel theory of self-fulfilling unemployment fluctuations. According to this theory, a firm hiring an …

periods of high unemployment in the U.S. In every case, the estimated multipliers are below unity. We do find some evidence of …