Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors … related to impacts on happiness, such as adaptation, social work norms, social capital, religious beliefs, and psychological … resources. Getting unemployed people back to work can do more for their happiness than compensating them for doing nothing. But …

We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult … life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and …, parental unemployment can also have a positive effect depending on the age and gender of the child. Our results are robust even …

unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the … welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase? "Happiness data" offer a new way to make these kinds of evaluations …

labor market policies. More generous unemployment support, which provided income replacement or programs to assist …

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 …

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 …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

. 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 …