UNLABELLED Unemployment and health selection in diverging economic conditions: Compositional changes? Evidence from 28 european countries. INTRODUCTION People with ill health tend to be overrepresented among the unemployment population. The relationship between health and unemployment might, however, be sensitive to the overall economic condition. Specifically, the health composition of the u...

Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit ceiling, coupled with the fact that there are regional wage differentials, im...

Unemployment is one of the most damaging personal experiences for someone participating in the labor market. In this paper we examine the factors that affect unemployed workers’ well-being, distinguishing several dimensions such as satisfaction with activity, income and leisure time, using the data from ECHP. While in all EU countries unemployment incidence reduces substantially the satisfactio...

Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2 percent or less by the mid 1990s and thereafter. U.S. data also show a secular decline in firm-level employment volatility and the job destruction rate. We interpret this decline as a decrease in the intensity of idiosyncratic labor demand shocks, a key parameter in search and matching models of frictional ...

We consider the contribution of sectoral shocks to post-war US unemployment movements in a dynamic factor framework. Whereas previously published estimates of the contribution of sectoral shocks to unemployment relate to a particular theory of unemployment, our approach is sufficiently general to encompass almost any theory. We estimate our model in the frequency domain and use data on unemploy...

This paper uses longitudinal data from the Dutch OSA Labor Supply Panel (1980-2000) to examine the phenomenon of unemployment scarring in the Netherlands. The study extends current research by not only asking if earlier unemployment damages subsequent employment careers and wages but also explores variation by the level of unemployment insurance benefits and key individual characteristics such ...

BACKGROUND Unemployment is associated with risk of future morbidity and premature mortality. PURPOSE To examine whether unemployment history predicts future C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in male participants in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. METHODS Unemployment, body mass index (BMI), and health behaviors were measured at 7, 10, and 15 years post-rec...

Hagadorn and co-authors (HKMM) invite the interpretation that most of the large increase in unemployment since 2007 can be blamed on the rising generosity of unemployment insurance benefits, leaving little to blame on the financial crisis. But the paper does not make that claim. And the claim is incorrect. The right way to explain the claims of the the paper is that a policy of extending UI ben...

Twenty years ago, on the eve of the first of the great post-BrettonWoods recessions, unemployment did not appear to be a major problem for advanced economies. Among what would later be dubbed the G-7 nations, the United States had the highest unemployment rate at 5.5 percent; but very little of this unemployment was long-term, and the extent of short-term unemployment could be rationalized as t...

In this paper, the log-exponentiated Kumaraswamy (LEK) distribution is introduced and studied as a survival model of unemployment, its survived function has the interesting property that it can be decreasing depending on the shape parameters. The method of maximum likelihood is applied for estimating the model parameters, survival and hazard rate functions. Stratification is used to reduce hete...