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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325303
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You'll never walk alone : unemployment, social networks and leisure activities
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction … unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432734
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Conspicuous work : peer working time, labour supply and happiness for male workers
Collewet, Marion; Grip, Andries de; Koning, Jaap de - 2015
This paper uncovers 'conspicuous work' as a new form of status seeking that can explain social interactions in labour supply. We analyse how peer working time relates to both labour supply and happiness for Dutch male workers. Using a unique measure of peer weekly working time, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513326
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Perceived job insecurity and well-being revisited : towards conceptual clarity
Geishecker, Ingo - 2010
with subsequent unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825072
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The causes and consequences of early-adult unemployment : evidence from cohort data
Clark, Andrew E.; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2019
unemployment from the time they left school up to age 30. We show that this experience is negatively correlated with the life … satisfaction that the individual reports at age 30, so that past unemployment scars. We also identify the childhood circumstances … and family background that predict this adult unemployment experience. Educational achievement and good behaviour at age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024444
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308432
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334546
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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015
In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280847
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Changing identity : retiring from unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357440
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On the misery of losing self-employment
Hetschko, Clemens - 2014
-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414222