or very good health is also plotted against the change in the unemployment rate over the period 2007-2012. Subjective … between changes in subjective general health and in unemployment: no evidence is found to suggest that the Great Recession has …

Courts has not substantially increased, although it is now less negatively associated with the local unemployment rate than …

In the latest recession, unemployment rates in the United States increased at a faster pace than in the average OECD … country. Since the unemployment rate has been more sensitive to technological shocks in the United States in the past than in … increase in the U.S. unemployment rate. I find this was not the case. …

unemployment fluctuations as the log difference between aggregate labor supply and aggregate labor demand. After estimation with U ….S. data, the implied second-moment statistics of the unemployment rate provide a reasonable match with those observed in the … determinants of unemployment fluctuations. Compared to an estimated canonical DSGE model without unemployment: wage stickiness is …

-equilibrium model. Alternatively, it is shown here how wage stickiness may bring unemployment fluctuations into a New-Keynesian model … unemployment fluctuations. Thus, second-moment statistics of U.S. unemployment are replicated reasonably well in our proposed New …

The most prevalent incentive problem in the U.S. unemployment insurance system is that individuals collect unemployment … benefits while being gainfully employed. We show how the unemployment insurance authority can efficiently use a combination of …. Employment tax is nonmonotonic: it increases between verifications but decreases after a verification. Unemployment benefits are …

government expenditures would have amounted to 264 million Euros per year. Due to higher unemployment insurance claims and ….1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men …