This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

Employment and wage subsidies are used to combat long-term unemployment, yet there is little research to guide the …-policy allow us to study effects of both subsidy rate and subsidy duration. We find that doubling of the subsidy rate has a … substantial impact on job finding rates but that doubled subsidy duration has no such effect. We find the opposite pattern when we …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …

This paper studies the impact of unemployment on child abuse and neglect between 2004 and 2012 in the United States, by … Services for nearly every county. We identify the effect of county-level unemployment rates using an industry shift …-share instrument which we create by interacting initial county industry shares and national industry unemployment rates. We estimate a …