participation rate shows a more robust effect on healthcare spending, morbidity, and mortality than the unemployment rate. Study … opposed to unemployment, is a better proxy for measuring the effect of the economic environment on healthcare spending and …

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …

Using data on 53 countries, this paper studies the unemployment effects of the far-reaching banking liberalization that … liberalization substantially decreased unemployment, particularly among young people. The lowering of barriers to the entry of … strongest effects. There is some, albeit weak, evidence that the cutback in interest rate controls has decreased unemployment as …