, divorce, and entry into and exit from unemployment. Current plans for SOEP foresee the addition of an “Innovation Sample” that …

While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social …, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data and finds individual unemployment to be even more hurtful when aggregate … unemployment is higher. On the other hand, an extended model that separately considers individuals who feel stigmatised from living …

with subsequent unemployment. …

(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment for … men. Men are somewhat more affected by labour market events (unemployment and layoffs) than are women, but in general the …

federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …

, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …

By using longitudinal data the relation between satisfaction with life and unemployment is analyzed in this study. Data … the effects of voluntary and involuntary unemployment on life satisfaction. (2) Moreover, the intent is to answer the …

Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and … smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become … unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio …