Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish the concept of unemployment defined by the International Labour … many jobless adults into the discouraged worker category thereby giving a misleading picture about the unemployment … takes the face of unemployment. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a scatter plot and simple correlation analysis …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of unemployment on coronary heart diseases (CHD) in Italy on a … between CHD and different unemployment experiences (ever unemployed; short, mid and long cumulative unemployment), exploiting …' characteristics during a 12-year pre-treatment period; the measurement of unemployment occurrence during a seven-year treatment period …

. Findings – The paper finds that consumption smoothing is dependent on the household member facing the unemployment transition …. In particular, only main breadwinner’s unemployment transitions affects consumption smoothing. It also shows that the … households are not capable of fully insuring against main breadwinner’s unemployment shocks. Further, the results show that this …

volatility if they reacted to their shocks like Germany. Employment (unemployment) rates in GIPS would have been less volatile …, especially in Spain and Portugal. Originality/value The trade-off between unemployment and wage adjustments vis-à-vis Germany was …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on transitions from the state of unemployment to that of … unemployment outflows in these two Mediterranean labour markets. Then, the paper examines discrepancies and similarities between … unemployment outflows in both countries, although not in the same way, especially with reference to marital status. Discrepancies …

Purpose – The current economic crisis has significantly increased unemployment, showing higher persistence than … employment and unemployment. Moreover, the authors contribute to the existing literature by considering a whole set of …

lacking liquidity use SS benefits as a safety net in order to finance consumption during an unemployment episode, even if they … do not retire at the same time. In this way, SS might be thought as a form of unemployment insurance (UI) which would … source of alternative unemployment benefits. Originality/value By focusing on the SS claiming behavior of the unemployed …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different dynamic characteristics of unemployment in a selected …-sensitive measure of unemployment, and uses cross-sectional data reported by Eurostat coming from European Labour Force Surveys …. Findings – The results add some evidence on the relevance of incorporating spells’ duration in measuring unemployment, finding …