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

The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD. This book … supply, and labour force participation. He argues that the growth of unemployment and long-term unemployment is mainly due to … a lack of aggregated demand and not due to high unemployment benefits. Economics of the Labour Market shows that …

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 …

confirm the cross-country variation in the responsiveness of unemployment in the wake of the Great Recession. In the United … commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment …-term estimate of Okun’s coefficient implying that the deviation in unemployment during the crisis resulted from a larger output gap …