Although unemployment likely entails various externalities, research examining its spillover effects on spouses is … scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German …-double-selection method for control-variable selection via Lasso regressions. One spouse's unemployment increases both spouses' smoking …

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 …

In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children's labor market entrance on the quality … negative correlation between fathers' unemployment at the time of children's labor market entrance and their children's first … wage, while no significant relation can be found for unemployment or labor market inactivity of mothers. …

respect to unemployment benefits is remarkably lower for risk-averse job seekers than for risk-loving job seekers. The results …

We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre … are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for those …