Unemployment in Germany remains a major policy issue. The unemployment problem began with ratchet effects following the … two crude oil‐price shocks in the 1970s. In each case, a persistent increase in (long‐term) unemployment became … approaches to reducing unemployment and increasing job creation. The author suggests “strategic employment policy” as a possible …

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 …

. 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 … households are not capable of fully insuring against main breadwinner’s unemployment shocks. Further, the results show that this …