In the United States, the Great Recession was marked by severe negative shocks to labor market conditions. In this study, we combine longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data on local area unemployment rates to examine the relationship between adverse labor market conditions and mothers' experiences of abusive behavior betwee...

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1 Introduction Unemployment is regarded as one of the most challenging economic problems facing the governments of the Caribbean. Although there are variations in the measurement of unemployment, official estimates obtained from labor force surveys indicate that, in 1995, the unemployment rate ranged from 7.8% in Antigua/Barbuda to 19.7% in Barbados (see Table 1). The data also show that unempl...

BACKGROUND In the U.S., economic conditions are intertwined with labor market decisions, access to health care, health care utilization and health outcomes. The Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system has served as a safety net provider by supplying free or reduced cost care to qualifying veterans. This study examines whether local area labor market conditions, measured using county-level unem...

We investigate the extent and type of state dependence in labor market outcomes for young low-skilled Australians. Our model allows for three labor force states, employment, unemployment and out of the labor force, and for observed and unobserved heterogeneity.We find evidence of occurrence dependence, but no lagged duration dependence. A past employment spell increases the probability of emplo...

The 2008-2009 crisis created large dislocations in the U.S. labor market: some sectors, locations, and occupations were more affected than others. As a result, researchers have been looking at the possibility of structural changes in labor market functioning, which may have created mismatches between available labor and employment opportunities; thus raising equilibrium levels of unemployment. ...

This paper develops a model to study how the thick market effect influences local unemployment rate fluctuations. The model demonstrates that the average matching quality improves as the number of workers and firms increases. Unemployed workers accumulate in a city until the local labor market reaches a critical minimum size, which leads to cyclical fluctuations in the local unemployment rate. ...