regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less … negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …

. Using highly detailed German county level data, we test whether the social norm effect of unemployment is age-dependent. The … wellbeing differential between the unemployed and the employed is found to increase with the local unemployment rate at the … beginning of the working life but to remain steady or even to decrease in older age. Individual unemployment, however, remains …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors …, for helping the unemployed back into work, and for more evenly distributing the burden of unemployment resulting from …

Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …

regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less … negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …

, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …