This paper is concerned with social interactions and their importance for unemployment. A theoretical model is … specified in which the psychological costs of unemployment depend upon the unemployment level. The analysis reveals social … multiplier effects, and shows that multiple unemployment equilibria may emerge. Data on all 20- to 24-year-olds living in …

This paper is concerned with social interactions and their importance for unemployment. A theoretical model is … specified in which the psychological costs of unemployment depend upon the unemployment level. The analysis reveals social … multiplier effects, and shows that multiple unemployment equilibria may emerge. Data on all 20- to 24-year-olds living in …

This paper is concerned with social interactions and their importance for unemployment. A theoretical model is … specified in which the social and psychological costs of unemployment depend upon the unemployment level. The theoretical … analysis reveals social multiplier effects, and shows that multiple unemployment equilibria may emerge. Data on all 20- to 24 …

unemployment status. Two directions of the ongoing research are analyzed: the impact of social norms on unemployment and the …

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 …

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 …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

This paper relates an individual’s social capital and the length of unemployment spells of the very same individual … of unemployment. Our results show that an individual’s social capital positively affects an agent’s probability to take … up employment in the next time period. This implies social capital shortens the length of an unemployment spell …

unemployment status. Two directions of the ongoing research are analyzed: the impact of social norms on unemployment and the …. -- social interactions ; social norms ; work norms ; regional unemployment ; social networks ; subjective well-being …

individual unemployment duration. The impact is assumed to be enhanced through social work norms shared by peers within the group … unemployment duration. -- regional social interactions ; social work norms ; group influence, regional unemployment ; religious …