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Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582057
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Do you really want to share everything? : the wellbeing of work-linked couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511425
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Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233149
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Changing identity : retiring from unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357440
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Quantifying the psychological costs of unemployment : the role of permanent income
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2007
Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also … show that, without this distinction, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are overestimated by roughly one …-third. Nevertheless, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment with this modified quantification method still amount to 2.3 (1.5) times the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630069
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The Subjective Well-Being of Workfare Participants: Insights from a Day Reconstruction Survey
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015
In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307061
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Time use, unemployment, and well-being: an empirical analysis using British time-use data
Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019
less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018272
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Women’s Labor Market Responses to their Partners’ Unemployment and Low-Pay Employment
Keldenich, Carina; Knabe, Andreas - 2018
Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women’s labor market statuses and their partners’ unemployment in … similar to that of his unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957193
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Subsidizing extra jobs: promoting employment by taming the unions
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2007
We study the subsidization of extra jobs in a general equilibrium framework. While the previous literature focuses on symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264237
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Scarring or scaring?: the psychological impact of past unemployment and future unemployment risk
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008
We reassess the scarring" hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past … from past unemployment operates via worsened expectations of becoming unemployed in the future, and that it is future … insecurity that makes people unhappy. Hence, the terminology should be altered by one letter: past unemployment scars" because it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264482