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The emotional timeline of unemployment : anticipation, reaction, and adaption
Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190179
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The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation
Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128946
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015
from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312724
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Employed but still unhappy? : on the relevance of the social work norm
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826714
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Endogeneity in the relation between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction
Hajek, André - 2013
This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of … life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … from 1998-2009 is examined. This study has two main goals: (1) To contribute to the interconnection between poverty, wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209215
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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316510
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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the wellbeing of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600797
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Employed but Still Unhappy? On the Relevance of the Social Work Norm
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600995
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Regional unemployment and norm-induced effects on life satisfaction
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social-norm effect for the unemployed individual, who might suffer less when it is more common to be unemployed. This empirical study, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009161660
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You don't know what you've got till it's gone! : unemployment and intertemporal changes in self-reported life satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - 2011
This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407567