immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …

Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … pronounced for male unemployed in west Germany. The effect is driven by income and income satisfaction, but not by the … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …

with subsequent unemployment. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

While a large body of evidence suggests that unemployment and self-reported happiness are negatively correlated, it is … not clear whether this reflects a causal effect of unemployment on happiness and whether subsidized employment can … employment projects - Germany's Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen - on self-reported happiness. Results from matching and fixed …

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the … federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …