This paper provides some of the first empirical evidence on the psychological impact of past unemployment. Using eleven waves of the German socio-economic panel (GSOEP) data set, we show, as is now standard, that those currently unemployed have far lower life satisfaction scores than do the...

Talk : nothing to be done / Tom Boland -- Dialogue : focus groups with young and mature unemployed / Jennifer Yeager and Jonathan Culleton -- City : redundant workers, forgotten citizens? The case of Waterford Crystal / Josh Lalor -- Place : graceful living : the experience of unemployment and...

In this paper we analyze the processes of labour market exclusion and (re-) inclusion, using a Danish register-based data set covering the period 1981-1990. The analysis is performed by estimation of reduced form transition models, the parameters of which are interpreted within the framework of...