In this paper, we address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, we ask how … drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We put …

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health … that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percent due to collapse of the sector raised mental disorders in the … chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, hopelessness and feelings of uselessness. …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …

Objectives: A multitude of studies has established a negative relationship between unemployment and health. With the … "Hartz-reforms", unemployment benefit II was introduced in 2005. Whether unemployment benefit II receipt has an impact …, additional to unemployment, on health, is investigated. Methods: For this study data of the panel study "Labour market and social …

for Objective 1 support occurred in the UK region of Cornwall in 2000, we are able to compare Cornwall's unemployment … for not having received Objective 1 funding. Second, we use Local Authority Districts and compare the unemployment change … unemployment in Cornwall as compared to regions that did not benefit from Objective 1 support. In the second part of the study we …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …