Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

This paper considers employment growth and unemployment from 1990-2010 in a cross-section of cities in light of … unemployment rates in 83 central cities in the United States. Change in educational attainment over time is suggestive of causing … higher job growth and lower unemployment. The implication is that initiatives to attract and retain college …

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

% compared to what would prevail in the absence of the minimum wage, an effect attributable to (i) unemployment effects of the …