This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at … job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of … driven by an income effect, but likely reflect the psychological costs of unemployment. Our findings are robust to a battery …

Entwicklungen sein. This work analyzes the effects of the German unemployment insurance system on the unemployment rate and the … individual job-seeking behavior. The duration of the unemployment benefits affects the time spend in unemployment. Another effect … is the span between available jobs and the level of the payments. At the same time, a longer duration of unemployment …

Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …