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 …

unemployment and income differ in size between regions such that one can assume increasing marginal disutility of unemployment. The …

In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing …-related job protection in Germany on employment opportunities for women in childbearing age without children for whom the observed … 1990s constitute the setting for a difference-in-differences analysis of the transition into employment as well as wages …

Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemployment on individuals but … from 2,973 couples selected from a German representative panel study to examine the effects of unemployment on life … satisfaction in couples over several years. We found that unemployment decreases life satisfaction in both members of the couple …

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 …

unemployment and income differ in size between regions such that one can assume increasing marginal disutility of unemployment. The …