Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Vernoit, James - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important … consequences for their children and leads to them having both lower subjective well-being and self-confidence. In addition, this …-esteem predicts educational attainments at 16. Together these findings offer new evidence of unemployment scarring on children …