determined by real consumption wage and unemployment‐rate differentials. Provides a theoretical analysis of market clearing and …

While there is a vast literature on the effect of unemployment insurance on unemployment duration, in almost all of … higher the ratio of unemployment income to that of previous earnings, the longer is unemployment duration, but finds that … when pre‐unemployment income itself is considered, duration is positively related to that income. Supports the positive …

employment, unemployment and inactivity at two dates, 1984 and 1992, which were similar points in the economic cycle. Uses …

Various authors have tested for the presence of a relationship between unemployment and crime, employing time‐series or … test for the presence of a relationship between male unemployment and crime, using regional and area‐level crime data from … unemployment and the incidence, and prevalence, of both property and personal crimes. Area‐level data are also employed to test …

increasingly dictates legislation changes. Claims that the period since the 1970s has witnessed growing levels of unemployment …

Examines changes in the responsiveness of occupational wages to occupational unemployment rate in Atlanta, Cleveland …, Los Angeles and Philadelphia over the 1977‐1990 period. Finds evidence that the wage responsiveness to unemployment …

Reviewing the persistence of high levels of unemployment in the EU, finds that this has been accompanied by an …

to explain the very low unemployment rate recorded in Switzerland up to the beginning of the 1990s. It also analyses the … foreign labour force. It comes to the conclusion that the unemployment observed since 1991 is not simply a consequence of a …

This paper is about the effects of unemployment on consumption behaviour through “job security” in Switzerland. Based … market. The paper finds that the record high level of unemployment since 1991 has mainly caused the observed deterioration of … the perceived “job security”. Two different scenarios of unemployment rates are then developed to show the quantitative …

The present analysis concentrates on short‐term effects of unemployment, namely on the transition from unemployment to … re‐employment. This empirical analysis estimates the post‐unemployment individual earnings using a double …‐selectivity approach (unemployment risk and the re‐employment probability). The data used in this paper are taken from five waves of the …