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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations
Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099852
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Endogeneity in the Relation between Poverty, Wealth and Life Satisfaction
Hajek, André - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717496
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The Added Worker Effect Differentiated by Gender and Partnership Status: Evidence from Involuntary Job Loss
Triebe, Doreen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
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 …
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784010
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The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses: Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany
Marcus, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784012