Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also … show that, without this distinction, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are overestimated by roughly one …-third. Nevertheless, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment with this modified quantification method still amount to 2.3 (1.5) times the …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the wellbeing of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …

is followed by a period of unemployment, the costs linked to a change are particularly high. These experiences from the …

individual has been unemployed for 10 months, pointing to the existence of an unemployment stigma for Germany. The results are … evidence for an unemployment stigma determined by the contract type. …

individual has been unemployed for 10 months, pointing to the existence of an unemployment stigma for Germany. The results are … evidence for an unemployment stigma determined by the contract type. …

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental distress using data from the Spanish … different segments of the Spanish labor market. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percentage … chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, stress, hopelessness, and feelings of …

less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …