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Don't worry, be happy? : happiness and reemployment
Krause, Annabelle - 2012
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
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Getting to Work : Unemployment and Economic Recovery in Los Angeles
Flaming, Daniel - 2016
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
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2021
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
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Does the unemployment rate moderate the well-being disadvantage of the unemployed? : within-region estimates from the European Social Survey
Hajdu, Gábor; Hajdu, Tamás - 2020
Using eight waves of the European Social Survey, we analysed how the local unemployment rate influences the well … unemployment rate). We find that the satisfaction of unemployed people (relative to employed people) is lower when the unemployment … regarding the happiness scores. Our results do not support the “social norm of unemployment” hypothesis that states that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293991
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Unemployment and social exclusion
Pohlan, Laura - 2019
on German linked survey and administrative data. To study the causal relationship between unemployment and multiple … effects of job loss are long-lasting, growing more profound the longer the duration of unemployment and persisting following …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307795
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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?
Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019
In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118755
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Unemployment and social exclusion
Pohlan, Laura - 2018
on German linked survey and administrative data. To study the causal relationship between unemployment and multiple … effects of job loss are long-lasting, growing more profound the longer the duration of unemployment and persisting following …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855343
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Unintended consequences of China's new labor contract law on unemployment and welfare loss of the workers
Akee, Randall; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2018
regression discontinuity design based on this exogenous change in unemployment status for this particular group of workers, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892473
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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403446
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You don't know what you've got till it's gone! : unemployment and intertemporal changes in self-reported life satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407567