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

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 …

Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and … dependence" arising from causal factors and "sorting" effects due to unobserved heterogeneity in the unemployment pool. I also …