analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …

Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …

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 …

that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …