By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

We analyze labor market flows and unemployment in the Czech Republic (CR), Slovakia and Poland over the period 2004 … than in the U.S. /UK. Yet, compared to neighboring countries, the CR suffers more from unemployment rigidity, as evidenced … most convincingly by a relatively weakernet flowof workers from unemployment to employment. This net flow alone would cut …

Objectives: A multitude of studies has established a negative relationship between unemployment and health. With the … Hartz-reforms, unemployment benefit II was introduced in 2005. Whether unemployment benefit II receipt has an impact …, additional to unemployment, on health, is investigated. Methods: For this study data of the panel study Labour market and social …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …

other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show … that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status … surrounding unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual …

distribution is endogenously determined. We use this model to analyze the comparative statics effects of increases in unemployment … compensation on the unemployment rate and aggregate welfare taking into account the induced change in the wage offer distribution … a selective increase in unemployment compensation, made available to those who impute a relatively low value to leisure …

Unemployment not only causes material hardship but can also affect an individual’s sense of identity (i.e. their …