Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction … analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction … analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …

Unemployment not only causes material hardship but can also affect an individual's sense of identity (i.e. their …

Unemployment not only causes material hardship but can also affect an individual's sense of identity (i.e. their …

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

pure pecuniary costs of unemployment for men (women). This confirms the high value of work for life satisfaction …Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also … creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In …

Deutschland untersuchen wir, ob der soziale Normeffekt von Arbeitslosigkeit altersabhängig ist. In der Tat finden wir, dass die …. 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 …

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 …