retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …

-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons … (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as …

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 …

reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

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 …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …