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 … affected by regional unemployment. However, insecure employed men and poor-prospect unemployed men are less negatively, or even …

Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well …-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is … used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The …

unemployment rate, whereas no such relationship is found in other hospitals. This is consistent with public hospitals providing …-hospital employment and local unemployment is stronger the more left-wing the local municipality. This latter result holds especially when …