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

-being. -- unemployment ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; Day Reconstruction Method ; identity ; partnership ; gender roles …We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze … how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on …

unemployment. Utilizing this framework, the paper provides different empirical identification strategies in order to disentangle … the various means through which unemployment alters both the well-being and utility of an individual and shows, by … reviewing some of the recent research in which I have participated, that unemployment primarily threatens an individual …

expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are …

expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student … education does not matter. The relationships though dealing with a gender-specific issue do not exhibit gender …

We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze … how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person's partner reduces the …

persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of … less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …

that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …, triggered by the opportunity to use the time in a way that yields higher levels of satisfaction than working. -- Unemployment … self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are more satisfied with their life than the unemployed and report more …