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 …

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

This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show … that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status … surrounding unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual …

, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic … dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted … increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well …

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 …