By how much do employed households reduce their consumption when the aggregate unemployment rate rises? In Spain during … of their expectations on future income growth rates: the shadow of unemployment. Using consumption panel data that … the Great Recession a 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate was related to a strong drop in household …

This paper shows that Livingston Survey measures of unemployment uncertainty are positively correlated with inflation …, that inflation Granger Causes unemployment uncertainty and that shocks to inflation uncertainty or unemployment uncertainty … have similar effects on real GDP growth. This suggests higher unemployment uncertainty is a cost of higher inflation that …

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid … capital accumulation as a macroeconomic shock. In the empirical analysis, medium-term unemployment is explained by capital …

more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 years old for the 1996 college graduation … explain two thirds of the rise in unemployment and coresidence between the 2013 and 1996 graduation cohorts. Rising wage … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …

how easier home financing and higher homeownership rates increase unemployment rates. To this purpose we build a model of … job search with liquid wealth accumulation and consumption of housing that can be rented, bought on credit, or sold. In … decline while job loss rates increase, causing the overall unemployment rate to rise. We estimate this model structurally …

that occupational unemployment risk does not have a large impact on consumption expenditure. However, despite investigating …The life-cycle consumption and permanent income hypotheses predict that if workers face greater likelihood of … unemployment in the future that lowers expected future income, they will save more today. In this paper, we test this hypothesis by …

unskilled unemployment via consumer demand: longer work hours and higher labor force participation imply higher incomes and less … consumer demand toward unskill-intensive goods. Relative demand for unskilled labor rises and unemployment falls. Finally, we …

consumption commitment for most households { their monthly rent or mortgage payment. I find that non-durable and food spending … weekly, biweekly and monthly income streams but the same timing of rent/mortgage payments have very similar consumption …