AIMS To examine the relation between unemployment rates in area of residence and all-cause mortality, taking the individuals' unemployment experience and a number of social and behavioural factors into account. METHODS Prospective cohort study with record linkage to mortality and unemployment registers. Data were pooled data from two population studies conducted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The as...

BACKGROUND Mass unemployment in Europe is endemic, especially among the young. Does it cause mortality? METHODS We analyzed long-term effects of unemployment occurring during the deep Swedish recession 1992-96. Mortality from all and selected causes was examined in the 6-year period after the recession among those employed in 1990 (3.4 million). Direct health selection was analyzed as risk of...

The Todaro Paradox Revisited The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an effici...

Six Ways to Leave Unemployment This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time profile of transitions out of unemployment. The novel aspect of the study resides in its identification of six destination states, namely, open-ended employment, fixed-term c...

Finnish unemployment rose in the early 1990s from 3% to 18% in just four years. It has since fallen back to the average European level, being 9.0% in January 2003. In this paper, we describe the shocks leading to this unforeseen increase in unemployment. We then discuss and research the role of labour market institutions in the adjustment process that has brought unemployment back to a ‘normal’...

We examine dynamic asymmetries in U.S unemployment using nonlinear time series models and Bayesian methods. We nd strong statistical evidence in favor of a two-regime threshold autoregressive model. Empirical results indicate that, once we take into account both parameter and model uncertainty, there are economically interesting asymmetries in the unemployment rate. One nding of particular inte...

In this paper, we apply search theory to ana lyze the determinants of job search success as measured by the wages earned by re-employed male and female Polish workers after a spell of unemployment in 1994-2001. In addition to a general examination of postunemployment earnings, this study focuses on several specific themes. In particular, we investigate (i) if the receipt of unemployment benefit...

Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection and Unemployment This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in a search model with heterogeneous multiple-worker firms. In our setup, PMR modifies the distribution of firm productivities, thereby affecting the equilibrium rate of unemployment. We distinguish between PMR related to entry costs and PMR that generates...

Persons who are unemployed for long periods of time in our society constitute a large, complex, ongoing problem, even during times of rleatively high employment. The significance of this problem is supported by the fact that between 1947 and 1962 long-term unemployment had risen 100 percent, while short-term unemployment rose 20 percent. We were also reducing short-term unemployment during this...

OBJECTIVE Quantify, for both genders, the correlation between the depression incidence rate and the unemployment rate in Portugal between 1995 and 2013. METHODS An ecological study was developed to correlate the evolution of the depression incidence rates estimated by the General Practitioner Sentinel Network and the annual unemployment rates provided by the National Statistical Institute in ...