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 …

We investigate the impact of workers' exposure to unemployment risk on CEO incentive compensation. Exploiting state …-level changes in unemployment benefits as a source of variation in workers' unemployment costs, we find that after unemployment …

Despite the heightened attention granted by the coronavirus crisis, low-skilled essential labor remains largely … health risks increased significantly during national lockdowns. The present study surveyed their working conditions in … Austria and identified the existing system of externalizing responsibility to subcontractors as key to facilitating the …

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 …

adjustments. Unemployment responses vary widely across countries. Unemployment is particularly responsive to health shocks in the … explain not only the spread of the disease, but also cross-country spillovers in perceptions about coronavirus risk and in … social distancing behavior. In the early phases of the pandemic, perceptions of coronavirus risk in most countries are …