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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
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In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective...
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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
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Unemployment not only causes material hardship but can also affect an individual's sense of identity (i.e. their …
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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
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Unemployment not only causes material hardship but can also affect an individual's sense of identity (i.e. their …
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Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also … show that, without this distinction, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are overestimated by roughly one …-third. Nevertheless, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment with this modified quantification method still amount to 2.3 (1.5) times the …
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less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …
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