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 …

instantaneous features of participation such as, perhaps, the adoption of a more rigorous daily routine. Unemployment benefits …

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …