Showing 1 - 10 of 15,304
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683258
Unemployment and under-employment represented $25.8 billion in annual wages not earned in Los Angeles County, $28 … where one or more breadwinners are under-employed. Unemployment and under-employment rates in LA peaked at the end of 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993406
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321279
dissatisfied with their job, the unemployed's well-being is statistically significantly higher. Thus, it appears that unemployment … effects as males and particularly married males suffer more from unemployment. Also, a quarter of the unemployed report that … they feel social pressure due to unemployment. These findings suggest that social approval plays some role in the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311302
This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different … aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both … unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916275
This study examines whether the distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration affects individual well-being. Two … distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration on individual well-being. We find significant evidence in favor of both the … remain unemployed for a longer time. At some point, however, both the employed and unemployed adapt to unemployment at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886329
This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different … aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both … unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909971
week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase in UI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550101
This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703033
variation in testosterone levels to explain transition probabilities into and out of unemployment. We examine labour market …, higher testosterone levels reduce the risk of unemployment. Based on previous studies and descriptive evidence, we argue that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705374