raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected … duration of post-unemployment job matches. On the other hand, an increase in skill mismatch in the aggregate production … function lowers the level of unemployment in an economy with high unemployment benefits. The third chapter empirically …

My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment … high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor market hinders workers from finding a suitable match. I focus on …-skill unemployment dynamics. I capture the across-skill search externalities and spillover effects that arise when low- and high …

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 …

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. …

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …

related to health status across middle/low and high-income countries. The dependent variable is self-assessed health (SAH …. Correcting for national differences in health reporting behavior, individual absolute income is found to be positively related to … individual health. Furthermore, in the high-income sample, there is strong evidence that average income within a peer-age group …

educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own … education. However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when surrounded by others …

associated with major health risks, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, and some forms of cancer; large health … establishes the econometric underpinning of an aggregate household health production function and an aggregate household health … supply function using data for 15 high income countries, 1971-2001. Our health production function estimates show that …