unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are … channel through which others' unemployment affects time allocation decisions of the unemployed. As higher regional … unemployment rates imply a lower availability of jobs for the unemployed, it decreases the expectations individuals have of finding …

unemployment increase in Spain can be traced back to the debt deleveraging needs of Spanish households. We use provincial household …The Spanish economy is currently plagued by a deep recession with very high unemployment. We ask how much of the … debt and sectoral unemployment data and follow Mian and Sufi (2012) to isolate the effect of household debt on Spanish …