Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a … longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest that paternal unemployment makes children significantly more conscientious …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at … job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of … driven by an income effect, but likely reflect the psychological costs of unemployment. Our findings are robust to a battery …