Panel Survey (BHPS). The data are used with the permission of all responsible authorities, who bear no responsibility for the analysis or interpretations presented here. improvement of the paper. All errors and deficiencies remaining in the paper are our own. ABSTRACT This paper investigates unemployment from the angle of unemployment spells experienced by individuals in Germany and the United ...

this paper tries to survey and estimate non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (nairu) and potential output. it uses the unobserved components model to propose a new method. the model consists of ukan law equations and philips curve. it uses unobservable key economic variable in the form of unobserved random trends in an equation system of three variables namely unemployment, gross dom...

This paper investigates a problem of 'state dependency'. People who have been unemployed in the past are much more likely than others to become unemployed in the future. But is it unemployment itself that causes future unemployment or is there something else, some measured or unmeasured form of heterogeneity, in individual characteristics or environmental circumstances, that causes both the pas...

1 Introduction Unemployment is regarded as one of the most challenging economic problems facing the governments of the Caribbean. Although there are variations in the measurement of unemployment, official estimates obtained from labor force surveys indicate that, in 1995, the unemployment rate ranged from 7.8% in Antigua/Barbuda to 19.7% in Barbados (see Table 1). The data also show that unempl...

BACKGROUND Unemployment has a number of negative consequences, such as decreased income and poor self-rated health. However, the relationships between unemployment, income, and health are not fully understood. Longitudinal studies have investigated the health effect of unemployment and income separately, but the mediating role of income remains to be scrutinized. Using longitudinal data and met...

Educated youth unemployment is crucial issue for developing countries. The social and economic costs of unemployment at individual, household and national level are universal. But there are few studies on unemployment duration when the individuals start jobs and its determinants in developing countries. We have analyzed the determinants of unemployment for first time jobs seekers, taking primar...

It is critical because average unemployment among young people is, in all countries of the region, much higher than average unemployment overall. In fact, in Latin America and the Caribbean the youth unemployment rate is twice the overall unemployment rate and three times the rate for adults; in some countries it is as high as five times the rate for adults over age 45. What is more, young peop...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies suggest that unemployment predicts increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but whether unemployment insurance programs mitigate this risk has not been assessed. Exploiting US state variations in unemployment insurance benefit programs, we tested the hypothesis that more generous benefits reduce CVD risk. METHODS Cohort data came from 16,108 participants in the ...

The effects of unemployment on health behaviors, and substance use in particular, is still unclear despite substantial existing research. This study aimed to assess the effects of individual and spousal unemployment on smoking and alcohol consumption. The study was based on eight waves of geocoded Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort data (US) from 1971 to 2008 that contained social network ...