of health problems among individuals with poor labour market prospects. We use register data covering the entire Swedish … population, including very detailed information on health. …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and … environment compared to the crisis years. The sharp decrease in unemployment probably resulted from the introduction of several … targeted policies and embellishment of unemployment statistics. …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need … unemployment insurance system and thereby increased the extent to which spouses have to insure each other against unemployment …

-participants, we find significant positive effects of being employed within this program. They are larger for individuals with health …

housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …

risk of unemployment in the 2020 Covid recession so that they and their employers can be located and provided with timely … unemployment from the Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the U.S. Department of Labor …

employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs …

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is … shortages. The road to full employment is embedded in a landscape with less income inequality and more "greening" of EU member …