With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate … identify potential areas of future research. -- unemployment insurance ; unemployment dynamics ; job search ; labor market …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …

Throughout the world, strong dispersions of both regional and national unemployment rates can be observed. The economic … between size and unemployment. Using data from 37 countries, 15 continents and trade areas as well as 496 federal states, we … will demonstrate that larger economic regions tend to have higher unemployment rates. Subsequently, we show that this …

This paper presents large-sample evidence that firms consider labor unemployment risk when setting their resource …' deliberate adjustment to committed resources in the existence of adjustment costs. We argue that workers' unemployment costs … that state unemployment insurance benefits offset the costs borne by involuntarily displaced workers, the generosity of …

protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and … and to what extent different socio-economic groups were affected. -- automatic stabilisers ; unemployment protection ; tax …

This paper describes our new dataset on conditionality requirements for unemployment benefit claimants. Even though the …

We develop a model of directed technology adoption, frictional unemployment, and migration to examine the effects of a … function, an increase in the skill ratio can reduce both the relative unemployment rate and the relative emigration rate (brain …

unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model ….g. home bias). As a model of unemployment, a migration gravity approach uncovers hitherto under-appreciated interregional …

This paper examines the effect of labor unemployment risk on firm risk. Using unemployment insurance benefits as a … proxy for unemployment risk, we find an economically significant positive relation between unemployment risk and firm risk …