in direction and magnitude with the ones from objective unemployment and being out of the labor force. However, our …

address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers … unemployment rates represent a second source of exogenous variation. Third, we propose a novel identification approach based on …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … affected by regional unemployment. However, insecure employed men and poor-prospect unemployed men are less negatively, or even …

satisfaction that the individual reports at age 30, so that past unemployment scars. We also identify the childhood circumstances … unemployment from the time they left school up to age 30. We show that this experience is negatively correlated with the life … and family background that predict this adult unemployment experience. Educational achievement and good behaviour at age …

unemployment. -- Unemployment ; life satisfaction ; job security ; public sector …High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … protection and face a lower risk of their organization's bankruptcy than private sector employees. The empirical results for …

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …