This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish … results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percent due to collapse of the sector raised mental disorders … faced very low chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, hopelessness and …

The evolution of Spanish unemployment has been quite idiosyncratic. The full-employment levels of the early seventies … were followed by unemployment rates that were the highest within the OECD countries in the aftermath of the oil price … shocks. While unemployment was extremely persistent in most of the eighties and nineties, it experienced its sharpest decline …

targeting affect unemployment, economic growth and the output gap. The results show that inflation targeting causes no harm to … employment in developing and emerging countries. On the contrary, it might reduce average unemployment and narrow the output gap …

explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …