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 …

, control variables or estimation methods. We discuss to what extent our results are consistent with equilibrium matching models …According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. In this paper, we use a new set of yearly panel data from a …

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 …

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 and social factors are important determinants of … suicide mortality. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while relatively strict …

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and structural change. Unlike previous work assessing the …

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 …

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 …

unemployment insurance across and within countries to gauge workers' demand for insurance. Using a firm-level panel from 41 … unemployment insurance: private and public provision of employment insurance are substitutes. …

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