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...

The economic and public health crisis caused by COVID-19 was devastating disproportionately hurt Blacks Hispanics some other groups. Unemployment rates measures of material hardship were higher increased more during the among than non-Hispanic Whites. Congress authorized a historic policy response, incorporating both targeted universal supports, expanding level duration benefits. This response ...

2. Inflation and Unemployment during Recessions (mean change from beginning of recession, quarterly data) Despite large rises in unemployment during the Great Recession, inflation has been remarkably stable in almost all advanced economies. This is different from the recessions in the 1970s and 1980s, when inflation fell much more when unemployment rose. Figure 3.1. The Behavior of Inflation Ha...

BACKGROUND Research shows that unemployment reduces access to health care and vaccines and increases financial difficulty, family conflict, and other sources of stress that are known to suppress immune function. In addition, seasonal unemployment rates parallel seasonal influenza activity. Following a theory that argues that macroeconomic conditions affect population health, this paper examines...

Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio-economic position (common cause). M...