Focusing on both hiring and firing margins, this paper revisits effects of fiscal expansion on unemployment. We develop … job finding, separation, and unemployment rates to a government spending shock, obtained from estimating a structural VAR … model with the U.S. data. However, our model fails to capture the response of vacancies and the volatility of unemployment. …

People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at …

Unemployment affects the mental health of partners almost as much as that of the unemployed person. The impact on …) which looked at couples affected by unemployment due to business closures. The findings show that the costs of 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 …

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic … dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted … increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well …

Sustainability of public deficit and debt in the long run has received much attention in the international political … rapidly. Starting in 1975, the rate of unemployment played a significant role in the sense of a counter-cyclical orientation …

conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship.Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability that … initially not employed respond more to highlocal unemployment rates by starting businesses than wage/salary workers. The results … higher levels of business creation. Using the regression estimates for thelocal unemployment rate effects, I find that the …