We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …

. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

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. …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …