recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having …

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …

unemployment rate at labor market entry for each birth cohort and state-of-birth cell based on average state migration rates and …

to the coronavirus pandemic. These measures have caused dramatic increases in unemployment in the short run, with an … than good due to the economic contraction, despite a large literature that finds mortality rates decline during recessions …. We estimate the relationship between unemployment, a widely accepted proxy for economic climate, and mortality in …

In recessions, unemployment increases despite the—perhaps counterintuitive—fact that the number of unemployed workers … unemployment fluctuations resting on this countercyclicality of gross flows from unemployment into employment. In recessions, the … losses from job displacement and from graduating during recessions, and the insensitivity of unemployment to labor market …

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …