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Does unemployment hurt less if there is more of it around? : a panel analysis of life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland

Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - 2011

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may...

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Hartz and minds: happiness effects of reforming an employment agency

Deter, Max - 2020

Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment rates. However, little is known about the reforms' effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study applies difference-in-difference estimations and...

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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 creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In contrast to previous studies, we apply Friedman's...

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Women between part-time and full-time work : the influence of changing hours of work on happiness and life-satisfaction

Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2010

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...

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Perceived job insecurity and well-being revisited : towards conceptual clarity

Geishecker, Ingo - 2010

This paper analyzes the impact of job insecurity perceptions on individual well-being. In contrast to previous studies, we explicitly take into account perceptions about both the likelihood and the potential costs of job loss and demonstrate that most contributions to the literature suffer from...

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Machen Kinder doch glücklich?

Humpert, Stephan - 2010 - Version: April 2010

In der ökonomischen Zufriedenheitsforschung wird ein negativer Effekt von Kindern auf die elterliche Zufriedenheit ermittelt. Dazu werden oftmals Probitmodelle geschätzt. In diesem Papier wird nun ein fixed effects Modell benutzt. Mittels Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) werden...

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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...

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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...

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The effect of subsidized employment on happiness

Crost, Benjamin - 2011

While a large body of evidence suggests that unemployment and self-reported happiness are negatively correlated, it is … not clear whether this reflects a causal effect of unemployment on happiness and whether subsidized employment can … increase the happiness of the unemployed. To close this gap, this paper estimates the causal effect of a type of subsidized …

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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 …

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