-skilled immigrants. This supports the view that policies aimed at making immigration more attractive to the high-skilled have to include …

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 …

general wage subsidies for all workers. If the hiring of a new employee also entails subsidizing an incumbent worker (double …

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 …

We study the subsidization of extra jobs in a general equilibrium framework. While the previous literature focuses on …