High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …

In contrast to unemployment, the effect of non-participation and parttime employment on subjective well-being has much … mothers, non-participation is revealed to be a more serious problem than unemployment. …

self-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …

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 …

regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less … negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …