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. …

After 2008, the Southern European economies suffered a strong and persistent increase in unemployment. Rising … government bond spreads necessitated the implementation of austerity policies. Austerity however, may increase unemployment. If … workers lose human capital during unemployment spells, the economy's future production potential and thus the fiscal …

that the unemployment rate is affected by the existence, duration, and replacement rate of unemployment insurance. Hiring … increasing unemployment. A key question is which policies have this effect. Using a 3-year panel of 90 countries, the study finds … unemployment. These results are broadly in line with the extensive literature on countries of the Organisation for Economic Co …

relationship between gold prices and the US unemployment rate, using three different periods of monthly observation, Model I: 1978 … gold and unemployment in Models II and III, with Model III representing the strongest and most significant relationship …. During 2008-2016 the price of gold increases by 4.7% for every 1% change in the unemployment rate, ceteris paribus. The short …

and institutional determinants of financial crisis duration. Using an extensive database with 125 countries observed over … the period 1976-2017 and employing a discrete-time duration model, we find that the electoral cycle, political ideology … shows that, to better understand the dynamics of the duration of financial crises, it is essential to look at the duration …

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 …