-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and … unemployment benefits using simulated increases in unemployment insurance replacement rates or equivalently, increases in the net … negative labour supply effects, drawing those employed into unemployment shifting the mass of the earnings distribution to the …

This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984-2006, using a sample of men and … unemployment on life satisfaction. This paper expands on previous cornerstone research from Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998) and … explicitly identifies truly exogenous unemployment entries starting from 1991. We find that for women in East and West Germany …