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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … period utilized. Focusing more on short-term fluctuations, changes in unemployment are decomposed to identify the association …

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 …

effects and counter-effects of stringency of movement restrictions and unemployment rate in responses to COVID-19 infection … cases. On the one hand, our results show that the unemployment rate rises when the governments impose more stringent … movement restrictions. On the other hand, a higher unemployment rate leads the government to lower stringency of movement …

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 …