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Subjective well-being and the duration of aggregate unemployment in Europe
Ochsen, Carsten - 2008
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/10010319272
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The social costs of unemployment : accounting for unemployment duration
Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - 2006
The social costs of unemployment, in terms of unemployment's impact on European citizens' life satisfaction, relate … strongly to unemployment duration. At any level of general joblessness, reducing long-term unemployment is more important than … reducing the number of people unemployed at any point in time. -- unemployment ; unemployment duration ; life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883982
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Subjective well-being and the duration of aggregate unemployment in Europe
Ochsen, Carsten - 2008
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
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Unhappiness and job finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012
unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- happiness ; unemployment duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530808
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Unhappiness and job finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012
unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- Happiness ; unemployment duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541833
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C. - 2016
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008140
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173536
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C. - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110860
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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003
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/10011401423
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Beyond the employment agency : the effect of social capital on the duration of unemployment
Marek, Philipp; Damm, Benjamin; Su, Tong-Yaa - 2015
This paper relates an individual’s social capital and the length of unemployment spells of the very same individual … of unemployment. Our results show that an individual’s social capital positively affects an agent’s probability to take … up employment in the next time period. This implies social capital shortens the length of an unemployment spell …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442073