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 …

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 …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show … that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status … surrounding unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual …

correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report … significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, but also recall reduced satisfaction from past unemployment well, and retrospectively … upgrade their past satisfaction scores. Therefore, the short-term negative effects of unemployment on individual life …

Although unemployment likely entails various externalities, research examining its spillover effects on spouses is … scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German …-double-selection method for control-variable selection via Lasso regressions. One spouse's unemployment increases both spouses' smoking …