Purpose This paper aims to address the immediate effects of COVID-19 crisis in Portuguese tourism and hospitality industry by examining whether some specific characteristics make people more vulnerable or immune unemployment. Design/methodology/approach Using an extensive micro-level data set personal job-related attributes containing all unemployed individuals industry, a logit model with 56,1...

We construct risks around consensus forecasts of real GDP growth, unemployment, and inflation. find that are time-varying, asymmetric, partly predictable. Tight financial conditions forecast downside growth risk, upside unemployment increased uncertainty the inflation forecast. Growth vulnerability arises as conditional mean variance negatively correlated: driven by lower higher when tighten. S...

BACKGROUND The Great Recession of 2007-2009 was the most severe and lengthy economic crisis in the U.S. since the Great Depression. The impacts on the population were multi-dimensional, but operated largely through local labor markets. OBJECTIVE To examine differences in recession-related changes in county unemployment rates and assess how population and place characteristics shaped these pat...

Conducted a community survey in the Fall of 1984 in a sample of high unemployment blue-collar census tracts in southeastern Michigan. Results of earlier analyses using these data showed that involuntarily unemployed workers had significantly elevated levels of depression, anxiety, somatization, and self-reported physical illness relative to a stably employed comparison group (Kessler, House, & ...

Conducted a community survey in the Fall of 1984 in a sample of high unemployment blue-collar census tracts in southeastern Michigan. Results of earlier analyses using these data showed that involuntarily unemployed workers had significantly elevated levels of depression, anx&ty, somatization, and selfreported physical illness relative to a stably employed comparison group (Kessler, House, & Tu...

The economic situation in the Arab countries is due to several factors as the political crisis in a socio-economic vulnerability. Political changes are usually accompanied by a drop in production, a deterioration of macroeconomic balances, a high level of poverty, an appearance of economic corruptions and a structural increase in unemployment. In addition, the expansion of terrorism is a main i...

OBJECTIVE To investigate if unemployment during an economic downturn is associated with mortality, even among men with markers of better health (higher cognitive function scores and qualifications), and to assess whether the associations vary by age at unemployment. DESIGN Longitudinal register-based cohort study. SETTING Study entry was in 1990 and 2001 when Sweden was entering periods of ...

this paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the psychometric properties of the revised Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES-2010) in a context of economic crisis and growing unemployment. METHODS Data correspond to salaried workers with a contract (n=4,750) from the second Psychosocial Work Environment Survey (Spain, 2010). Analyses included acceptability, scale score distributions, Cronbach's alpha coef...

employment of graduates is considered at national level as a a problem for the educational planners in diffrent countries. this is of great concern because not only the employment market is at the core of social and ecomomic development but also it gives individuals a social role to play through gainful employment. this article describes the problem, analyses the relationship between education ...