While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social …, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data and finds individual unemployment to be even more hurtful when aggregate … unemployment is higher. On the other hand, an extended model that separately considers individuals who feel stigmatised from living …

Although unemployment likely entails various externalities, research examining its spillover effects on spouses is … scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German …-double-selection method for control-variable selection via Lasso regressions. One spouse's unemployment increases both spouses' smoking …

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 …