This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on …) based on entropy balancing and focus on unemployment due to plant closures. Using German panel data, we show that the effect … of unemployment varies across the distribution of public social activities. It is large and negative for individuals in …

-in-difference matching strategy is robust against selection on observables and time-invariant unobservables. This paper provides an indirect …

-adjusted semiparametric difference-in-difference matching strategy is robust against selection on observables and time-invariant unobservables …-in-difference estimator. The findings are robust over various matching specifications and different choices of the conditioning variables …. -- Job loss ; smoking ; body weight ; health behavior ; difference-in-difference ; propensity score matching …

-employment duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … unemployment, but not in terms of wages, compared to males. Policymakers may consider the importance of implementing diverse …

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … of the individual labor market condition. We combined matching methods and parametric estimation to strengthen the causal …

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … of the individual labor market condition. We combined matching methods and parametric estimation to strengthen the causal …

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … of the individual labor market condition. We combined matching methods and parametric estimation to strengthen the causal …

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual’s unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …