This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation for Germany using the German Socio …-Economic Panel. We find significant negative, robust and, for some activities, lasting effects of unemployment on social … participation. Causality is established by focussing on plant closures as exogenous entries into unemployment. Social norms, labor …

unemployment. By analogy to the literature on social accounting under environmental external effects, the current value Hamiltonian … (or extended NNP in utility terms) is not an exact welfare measure in an economy with unemployment. The present value of …

rich survey data from 2007 to 2009 of entrants into unemployment in Germany (the IZA Evaluation Dataset S) to calculate …

As data from multiple waves of HILDA become available, Australian researchers will be able to study the unemployment … unemployment. This paper makes an initial contribution in analysing the experience of unemployed Australians based on a range of …. Aspects of unemployment investigated include the perceived barriers to employment, job search methods, financial circumstances …

paper, we summarize some recent findings with respect to geographical comparisons of income, unemployment, health and …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population interms of reduced subjective well … thesensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in thepublic sector than in the private … unemployment. …

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 …

self-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …