. 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 …

change in SWB predicts job search and unemployment duration. The findings suggest that those who report feeling hurt by … unemployment have shorter unemployment durations. Men who report a loss of SWB are also more likely to look for a job, but women …: search effort and unemployment duration are affected by the utility differential between having a job and being unemployed. …

effect of unemployment on life satisfaction. -- ordered response ; panel data ; correlated heterogeneity ; incidental …

also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a … probability and the reentry wage. Residual life satisfaction displays higher (or lower) satisfaction levels than would be … optimal level of happiness, which is not necessarily the highest. -- unemployment ; job search ; happiness ; reemployment …

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 …

effect of unemployment on life satisfaction. -- ordered response ; panel data ; correlated heterogeneity ; incidental …

effect of unemployment on life satisfaction. -- ordered response ; panel data ; correlated heterogeneity ; incidental …

to implement. The empirical relevance is illustrated in an application to the effect of unemployment on happiness …

these findings by examining the heterogeneous unemployment effects over the quantiles of satisfaction with various life …Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies …

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 …