how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the …

that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …

We reassess the “scarring” hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past … from past unemployment operates via worsened expectations of becoming unemployed in the future, and that it is future … insecurity that makes people unhappy. Hence, the terminology should be altered by one letter: past unemployment “scars” because …

Using a longitudinal data of British youths, this paper explores the consequences of past parental unemployment on the … current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important … unemployment compared to paternal unemployment. In our final table, we show changes in adolescents' well-being and self …

,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental health and life satisfaction is almost four … times larger for workers who had been bullied a lot in their early life. We also find zero adaptation to unemployment for …