A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration

Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik), 2006, vol. 52, issue 4, pages 291-308

Abstract: Although it is now widely accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The panel results show little evidence of habituation to unemployment in Europe in the 1990's.

Keywords: Life satisfaction; unemployment; unemployment duration; habituation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E10 E61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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