This paper estimates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse …. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …

-cognitive skills have a predictive power on unemployment transitions …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

with subsequent unemployment …

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 …

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

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual’s unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …

job loss and (2) job-to-unemployment transitions. We therefore apply both a “subjective” and a more “objective” measure of … industries. Employees in trading service sectors face both a higher subjective and objective unemployment risk, regardless of … individual unemployment risk …