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 …

changes in unemployment and shifts in attitudes toward gender roles in the labor market. The results are not immediately … effects. We find that an increase in unemployment is associated to more conservative views about gender roles in the labor … factors matter. In particular, the link between higher unemployment and more conservative views on gender roles is stronger in …

of non-standard and precarious employment. Women and men have relatively equal levels of unemployment at present, but the … course, while men are more likely to experience unemployment at the entry and exit points to the labor market. Unemployment … measures are directed mainly at alleviating the sources of male unemployment. Employment deregulation in Japan embodies varying …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy …