bound to conclude that ALMP makes a big difference to the level of unemployment. There is some evidence that disadvantaged …

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 …

span a long period, 1999-2012, including the Great Recession. Unlike most consumption datasets, this microdata is designed …. 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 …

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 …