dissatisfied with their job, the unemployed's well-being is statistically significantly higher. Thus, it appears that unemployment … effects as males and particularly married males suffer more from unemployment. Also, a quarter of the unemployed report that … they feel social pressure due to unemployment. These findings suggest that social approval plays some role in the impact of …

We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …

Cocco, Gomes and Maenhout (2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between … states, namely employment, short-term as well as long-term unemployment. This allows us to examine the effects of persistence … in the unemployment process on portfolio choice. Our main findings are, first, that in case of short-term unemployment …

(2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states …, short-term as well as long-term unemployment. This allows us to examine the effects of persistence in the unemployment … process on portfolio choice. Our main findings are, first, that in case of short-term unemployment only, social security …

We study how unemployment effects the over-indebtedness of households using the new European Household Finance and … to country specific results, the role of unemployment varies widely across countries. In Spain, France or Portugal, for … households plagued by over-indebtedness increased by more than 10%, suggesting that another unemployment shock could have a major …

The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …