The assumption of linearity is tested using six statistical tests for the US unemployment rate and four employment sectoral shares growth rates; construction, finance, manufacturing and trade. An AR(p) model was used to remove any linear structure from the series. Strong evidence of non-linearity was found for the unemployment rate and the sectoral shares across the six statistical tests.

The UI bonus experiments were conceived just after unemployment in the United States had reached a post–World War II high. In 1982 and 1983, for example, the civilian unemployment rate was nearly 10 percent (Council of Economic Advisers 1999). During the 1960s, the unemployment rate averaged under 5 percent and during the 1970s, it averaged just over 6 percent. High unemployment, coupled with a...

In this paper I study the prevalence and cyclicality of job-to-job transitions using two micro datasets that allow one to identify workers who move from one job to another without an intervening spell of unemployment. I find that job-to-job flows are vast. More than half of all prime-age full-time workers who separate from their employer between two monthly interviews are employed in the second...

Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is the sign of such relationship. In addition, the paper aims to assess the relative impact of inflow and outflow from unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemplo...

The housing market exhibits a puzzling phenomenon that transaction volume and prices are strongly positively correlated. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic search-matching model to study the impact of the unemployment rate on the housing market in the presence of the thick market effect. Our analysis shows that an increase in the unemployment reduces the number of buyers, weakens the h...

Unemployment figures released last week, however, suggest that the economic recovery is running into trouble. Instead of declining, as the president promised, the rate of unemployment is increasing. This poses a serious challenge to Mr. Lagos, who promised during his 1999 campaign that 200,000 new jobs would be created this year. At 10.2%, up from 9.4%, the unemployment rate is an embarrassment...

the rate of suicide globally and in iran is increasing. suicide destroys human capital and poses huge obstacles for the improvement of women’s health and for the wider public health agenda. the main objectives of this paper is to review the available evidence on suicide in iran as well as to explore the underlying causes and reasons for suicidal tendencies among iranian women. the paper tests w...

The authors used theoretical models to organize the diverse unemployment literature, and meta-analytic techniques were used to examine the impact of unemployment on worker well-being across 104 empirical studies with 437 effect sizes. Unemployed individuals had lower psychological and physical well-being than did their employed counterparts. Unemployment duration and sample type (school leaver ...