analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …

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 …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

economic theory of individual utility. -- life satisfaction ; retirement ; unemployment ; identity ; social norm …