response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and employer terminations as exogenous forms of unemployment. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

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

incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual …

Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemployment on individuals but … from 2,973 couples selected from a German representative panel study to examine the effects of unemployment on life … satisfaction in couples over several years. We found that unemployment decreases life satisfaction in both members of the couple …

unemployment and income differ in size between regions such that one can assume increasing marginal disutility of unemployment. The …

By using longitudinal data the relation between satisfaction with life and unemployment is analyzed in this study. Data … the effects of voluntary and involuntary unemployment on life satisfaction. (2) Moreover, the intent is to answer the …

aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports counter-cyclical teenage fertility. …

Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and … smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become … unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio …