also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a … optimal level of happiness, which is not necessarily the highest. -- unemployment ; job search ; happiness ; reemployment …

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 …In dieser Arbeit wird die Beziehung zwischen Lebenszufriedenheit und Arbeitslosigkeit im Längsschnitt untersucht. Die …

, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. … man von einer Arbeitslosigkeit zurück in die Vollerwerbstätigkeit gelangt. Diskrepanzen zwischen den Geschlechtern werden …

This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …

correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report … significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, but also recall reduced satisfaction from past unemployment well, and retrospectively … upgrade their past satisfaction scores. Therefore, the short-term negative effects of unemployment on individual life …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. -- unemployment ; life satisfaction ; job security ; public sector …

unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- happiness ; unemployment duration …

Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies … unemployed. A similar but stronger effect of unemployment is found for a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12). For happy and …