suicide is a well-known public health problem in the united states. macroeconomic conditions, among many other factors, because of their impacts on psychological well-being of individuals, are thought to be linked to suicide attempts. however, previous research on the relationship between suicide rates and macroeconomic conditions, especially that of labor market conditions, has resulted into a...

Abstract Official statistics and usual metrics place Romania at a relatively low level of unemployment. This paper shows why this can be misleading, considering various specificities the Romanian economy. Looking such factors as structural features, high number people employed in agriculture, involuntary part-time workers, etc. we show that there are alternative for unemployment constitute bett...

today, unemployment has become a major problem in national level as well as in yazd province. the presence of high unemployment has caused considerable amount of wastage of active human resources of the society which otherwise could have been used in various prosperous activities. as a result this situation may lead to poverty, corruption, unequal income distribution and other negative conseque...

This study examined the association between unemployment and life expectancy in the United States during 1990-2010. Census-based unemployment rates were linked to US county-level mortality data. Life expectancies were calculated by age, sex, race, and unemployment level during 1990-2010. Differences in life expectancy were decomposed by age and cause of death. Life expectancy was consistently l...

In order to analyze the labor market through search and matching theory, we need deep parameters namely, rate of inflow to the unemployment pool and job-finding rate. In other words, these rates are primary parameters of matching function; hence, estimating these parameters is an essential step for the use of search and matching theory in every economy. In this paper, we estimate these rates of...

[ABSTRACT]: Unemployment rates are regarded as major indicators of economic health; unemployment rates of regions and the relationship among them should be studied vigorously to gain insight on the composition of the broad economy. The spatial relationship between unemployment rates of different regions has been studied in both Boston and Italy, and this paper presents a similar study of the un...