Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed e...

The relationship between unemployment and entrepreneurship has been shrouded with ambiguity. On the one hand, one strand in the literature has found that unemployment stimulates entrepreneurial activity, which has been termed as a “refugee effect”. On the other hand, a very different strand in the literature has identified that higher levels of entrepreneurship reduce unemployment, or what has ...

By using panel data, this study examines the effect of unemployment on various types of individual health-related behavior, namely physical exercise, dietary habits, smoking, drinking, and sleep duration among Japanese men aged 20 –40 years. The results indicate that the effect of unemployment on health-related behavior varies. It is found that exercise habits and sleep duration are affected by...

This paper argues that moderate unemployment insurance not only reduces the uncertainty faced by risk-averse workers but also improves efficiency and raises output. We develop a model in which the decentralized equilibrium is inefficient without unemployment insurance, because the labor market endogenously creates jobs that provide risk-averse workers with low unemployment risk and low wages. E...

We study unemployment insurance (UI) in a general equilibrium environment in which unemployed workers only receive benefits for a finite length of time. Although all workers have identical productivity and leisure value, the random arrival of job offers creates ex-post differences with respect to their time remaining until benefit expiration. Firms, which are also homogenous, can exploit these ...

93 The paper uses cultural and discourse analysis to present the narrative (discursive) elements of unemployment and informal economy in Croatia today. Research has pointed to the metaphorical usage as well as the ambiguity of deeply rooted elements characterising media and colloquial discourse on unemployment and the unemployed. Both the media and the personal accounts of the unemployed perpet...

This study adopts the push-entrepreneurship perspective and develops a conceptual framework grounded in prospect theory, in order to investigate whether source of sunemployment, layoff in particular, and duration of unemployment stimulate entrepreneurial intent. We also propose that fear of failure and risk propensity moderate the source/duration–entrepreneurial intent relationships. We test ou...

PURPOSE There have been a number of reviews on the association+ between unemployment and suicide, but none have investigated how this relationship is influenced by duration of unemployment. METHOD A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted of those studies that assessed duration of unemployment as a risk factor for suicide. Studies considered as eligible for inclusion were population...

BACKGROUND Some studies suggest that people's alcohol consumption increases during unemployment whereas others suggest the opposite. All studies, however, deal with situations marked by relatively low national unemployment rates. We studied alcohol use among individuals in relation to unemployment, education, marital status and sex during times of both low and high unemployment in Finland. ME...