Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …

sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability … unemployment rate are associated with larger variations for those with poor health or with a low non-cognitive ability. This …Unemployment swings have distributional consequences if some groups are hit harder than others. We examine if the …

considered to be exogenous to the individual, and lay-offs, where the causal direction of health and unemployment is ambiguous …. This paper uses data from SHARELIFE to shed light on the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss on health. The … health to assess long-term health consequences of job loss, which has to have occurred at least 25 years before the current …

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …

This paper is aimed at investigating the effects of government intervention through unemployment benefits on …

The way age-specific unemployment rates fluctuate over the business cycle differs significantly across countries. This … paper examines the effect of labor-market institutions on the fluctuations of age-specific unemployment rates based on panel …

monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first … hired over the business cycle, and the aggregate unemployment gap is caused by immigrants' higher rates in the unemployment …

Do economic recessions and high unemployment lead to more business start-ups or are people more likely to become self … negative effect on start-up activities. Moreover, the level of unemployment has a stronger influence on start-up rates: high … unemployment rates are accompanied by a relatively high number of business foundations, while in periods of low unemployment …