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 …

. Using highly detailed German county level data, we test whether the social norm effect of unemployment is age-dependent. The … wellbeing differential between the unemployed and the employed is found to increase with the local unemployment rate at the … beginning of the working life but to remain steady or even to decrease in older age. Individual unemployment, however, remains …

This study focuses on the long term eff ects of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in a family context for 17-24 year … old sons living with at least one parent, using data from the German SOEP. As fathers enter unemployment, sons' subjective … sons, this suggests even higher true costs of unemployment than previously thought. …

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 andWest Germany …