This paper analyzes the effects of environmental policy on employment (and unemployment) using a new general … unemployment) is small, even in the short run. An environmental performance standard causes a substantially smaller sectoral shift …

through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results … show that as UI benefit generosity reaches 100 percent income replacement, there is no effect of the unemployment rate on …

unemployment rate of the magnitude of the Great Recession reduces the average, annual age-adjusted mortality rate by 2.3 percent …