In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of … decreasing levels of well-being and social integration of the participants. Instead, this decrease is driven by a rising share of …

analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research …

This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …

The paper critically examines the New Keynesian explanation of hysteresis based on the role of long-term unemployment … investigate the reversibility of long-term unemployment. Then we focus on episodes of sustained long-term unemployment reductions … results emerge: i) the evolution of the long-term unemployment rate is almost completely synchronous with the dynamics of the …

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This …

unemployment. In addition, allowance is also made to accommodate the "stayer" phenomenon in the state of employment. All these were … found to be very important in the estimation of the effect of scarring. …

Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper … unemployed. A similar but stronger effect of unemployment is found for a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12). For happy and …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …