regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less … negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …

unemployment when taking place in industries characterized by low skilled wage rigidity. Thus, in terms of unemployment, not …

, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth …

This paper estimates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse …. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both …

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 …

normative differences between these groups suggest that various factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on … fixed-effects models to trace within-person change in subjective well-being across the transition from employment to … unemployment and over several years after job loss. Results showed that immigrants' average declines in subjective well …