federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …

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 …

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

This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation for Germany using the German Socio …-Economic Panel. We find significant negative, robust and, for some activities, lasting effects of unemployment on social … participation. Causality is established by focussing on plant closures as exogenous entries into unemployment. Social norms, labor …

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 …

changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC … unemployment. Overall, we find a significant shift in stated LOC due to unemployment. Because the effect is observable during … unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only …

Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …

regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less … negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …