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retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …
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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...
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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 …
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that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …
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The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …
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less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …
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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 …
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-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons … (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as …
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In this paper, we attempt to renew the interest in marginal employment subsidies. Such subsidies are paid only for a firm's additional employment exceeding some reference level and create larger employment stimuli at lower fiscal costs than general wage subsidies for all workers. If the hiring...
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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...
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