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 … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …

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

strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person's partner reduces the … how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership …

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

less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …

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 …

less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …

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 …