This article examines the relationship between mental health and wellbeing and unemployment utilising the 1995 National Health Survey (1995 NHS) and the 1997 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing of Adults (1997 SMHWB) data sets. Three indicators of mental health and wellbeing are...

The paper evaluates the effectiveness of growth as a remedy for unemployment in the face of a wage minimum in a Solow-Ramsey growth model. It is shown that growth alone will be sufficient to eventually eliminate any quantity of unemployment, as long as the minimum wage is not set "too high."...