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Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...
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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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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
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-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …
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Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also … show that, without this distinction, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are overestimated by roughly one …-third. Nevertheless, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment with this modified quantification method still amount to 2.3 (1.5) times the …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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self-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …
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economic theory of individual utility. -- life satisfaction ; retirement ; unemployment ; identity ; social norm …
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