Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

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

that labour markets clear competitively. At least for Europe, which has been suffering from high unemployment f or a long … unemployment which results from the union-firm wage bargaining both with optimal and restricted profit taxation when capital is … the private sector playing a Nash game. The main conclusion is that in the presence of unemployment, the conventional …

that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …, triggered by the opportunity to use the time in a way that yields higher levels of satisfaction than working. -- Unemployment …

how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person's partner reduces the …-being. -- unemployment ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; Day Reconstruction Method ; identity ; partnership ; gender roles …

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 …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

unemployment. Utilizing this framework, the paper provides different empirical identification strategies in order to disentangle … the various means through which unemployment alters both the well-being and utility of an individual and shows, by … reviewing some of the recent research in which I have participated, that unemployment primarily threatens an individual …

economic theory of individual utility. -- life satisfaction ; retirement ; unemployment ; identity ; social norm …