A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration

Publication type

Research Paper

Series Number

2406

Series

IZA Discussion Papers

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Publication date

October 1, 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.

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- http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp2406.html

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working paper

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