the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …

identification strategy rests on an instrumental variable approach where the county unemployment rate and its relative change …

reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

. Using highly detailed German county level data, we test whether the social norm effect of unemployment is age-dependent. The … wellbeing differential between the unemployed and the employed is found to increase with the local unemployment rate at the … beginning of the working life but to remain steady or even to decrease in older age. Individual unemployment, however, remains …

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and longlasting consequences of parental unemployment. …

We study the effect of unemployment on cognitive abilities among individuals aged between 50 and 65 in Europe. To this … unemployment, cognitive abilities only deteriorate marginally - the effects are insignificant both in statistical and economic … terms. We do, however, find significant effects of late-career unemployment on the likelihood to leave the labor force, and …

This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation for Germany using the German Socio …-Economic Panel. We find significant negative, robust and, for some activities, lasting effects of unemployment on social … participation. Causality is established by focussing on plant closures as exogenous entries into unemployment. Social norms, labor …