notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …

We study the role of uncertainty shocks in explaining unemployment dynamics, separating out the role of aggregate and … measure aggregate and sectoral uncertainty and compare their effects on the unemployment rate in a standard macroeconomic … vector autoregressive (VAR) model. We find that aggregate uncertainty leads to an immediate increase in unemployment, with …

in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … from non-participation. Narrowing of the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a …

labor markets. It also demonstrates that a positive rate of unemployment can exist even in the absence of matching frictions …, providing unemployment insurance, or subsidizing pre-marital investment. …

impact of changing industry competitiveness on the duration of unemployment spells and the change in wages accompanying … nontraded workers. They incur both a longer spell of unemployment and a greater loss of earnings. Within traded industries … regarding the duration of the unemployment spell is then combined with previous results regarding trade related displacements to …

Research on unemployment among managers and professionals has documented the experience of job loss as stressful not … relatively privileged workers. Four main strategies are identified: (a) redefining the meaning of unemployment; (b) realizing … bolstering feelings of self-efficacy damaged by job loss and prolonged unemployment. The analysis shows how these self …

given to the unemployment rate. While several of the most recent models of unemployment show that the aggregate unemployment … rate in Australia does indeed behave differently during periods of low and high unemployment, none can explain what drives … the unemployment rate to increase at such a rapid rate and what contributes to its much slower decrease. Another central …