Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a … longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest that paternal unemployment makes children significantly more conscientious …

Das Diskussionspapier thematisiert die objektive und subjektive Lebenslage von Arbeitslosen in Deutschland im Vergleich …The discussion paper picks out the objective and the subjective well-being of the unemployed in Germany compared to the …

. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemployment on individuals but … from 2,973 couples selected from a German representative panel study to examine the effects of unemployment on life … satisfaction in couples over several years. We found that unemployment decreases life satisfaction in both members of the couple …

This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on …) based on entropy balancing and focus on unemployment due to plant closures. Using German panel data, we show that the effect … of unemployment varies across the distribution of public social activities. It is large and negative for individuals in …

The long-term negative effects of unemployment, especially on subjective well-being, have been indicated by many … studies. Therefore, unemployment and its effects on the individual life course must remain an important challenge for social … analysed in particular its development during the unemployment period. The trajectory is usually characterized by the effects …

, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes …

While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social …, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data and finds individual unemployment to be even more hurtful when aggregate … unemployment is higher. On the other hand, an extended model that separately considers individuals who feel stigmatised from living …

with subsequent unemployment. …

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …