self-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show … that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status … surrounding unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual …

, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …

incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual …

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic … dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted … increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well …

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 …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and employer terminations as exogenous forms of unemployment. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

unemployment and income differ in size between regions such that one can assume increasing marginal disutility of unemployment. The …

By using longitudinal data the relation between satisfaction with life and unemployment is analyzed in this study. Data … the effects of voluntary and involuntary unemployment on life satisfaction. (2) Moreover, the intent is to answer the …