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 …

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 …

Why, at the onset of a downturn in economic activity and an upswing in unemployment (in the early 2000’s), did the …

. For instance, a more generous unemployment insurance system reduces the crime rate of the unemployed but its effect on the … crime rate of the employed depends on job duration and jail sentences. When the model is calibrated to U.S. data, the … overall effect on crime is positive but quantitatively small. Wage subsidies reduce unemployment and crime rates of employed …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

unemployment data for France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Additionally, we test different forecasting horizons, in order …

This paper investigates the evolution of the geographical distribution of unemployment rates in a sample of 258 NUTS-2 … institutional factors shaping regional unemployment disparities. To that end, the present analysis uses recently developed spatial … kernels are used to analyze the e_x000B_ect of the various factors in the shape of the whole distribution of unemployment rate …