also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a … optimal level of happiness, which is not necessarily the highest. -- unemployment ; job search ; happiness ; reemployment …

regression discontinuity design based on this exogenous change in unemployment status for this particular group of workers, we …

We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction … unemployment. …

unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- happiness ; unemployment duration …

This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different … aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both … unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment - the "wage curve". …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …