also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness … probability and the reentry wage. Residual life satisfaction displays higher (or lower) satisfaction levels than would be …

Happiness drops when individuals become unemployed. The negative impact of the unemployment shock, however, may differ … whether such deep psychological traits have an influence on how unemployment is perceived. It is found that unemployment has a … significantly negative effect on life satisfaction in Switzerland. I furthermore present evidence which confirms to some extent the …

determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women?s lower probability … of exiting unemployment for a job explains the lion?s share of the gender gap in the unemployment rates in the Czech …

who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative … if caseworker and unemployed belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g. same gender of …

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional … unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are … channel through which others' unemployment affects time allocation decisions of the unemployed. As higher regional …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by …

their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that … only income relative to others was related to well-being. In this paper, we review the evidence to assess the importance of … absolute and relative income in determining well-being. Our research suggests that absolute income plays a major role in …

economy. A key issue examined is how the level of pain in a society is influenced by the unemployment rate. Method: The study … of the economy. Pain is high when the unemployment rate is high. That is not because of greater pain among people who …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

lead to higher equilibrium unemployment via the generated real wage wedge. …