Journal Article

A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration

Authors

Publication date

2006

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.

Published in

Applied Economics Quarterly

Volume

52 (4):291-308

Subjects

Labour Market and Well Being

Notes

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