This thesis is composed of three different chapters focusing on labour market policies, unemployment and the …-in-difference study. The second chapter is dedicated to the effects of the partial revision of the unemployment insurance law, examining … in a synthetic control method the effects of a shorter insurance benefit period on unemployment. The last part focuses on …

This paper studies the responses of unemployment in Germany, the United States and Britain to the Great Recession of … suffered from recession but no structural problems; the United States suffered from structural unemployment during the recovery …; Germany exhibited a much better performance both during and after the recession. The rise in OECD unemployment is broken down …

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health … that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percent due to collapse of the sector raised mental disorders in the … chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, hopelessness and feelings of uselessness. …

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 …