life satisfaction

This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets. Both prominent methodological issues and substantive themes are introduced.

This paper studies the effect of unemployment on social participation using German panel data. The results suggests unemployment to decreases public and increase private social activities.

This paper exmanies whether individuals suffer from capability deprivation in terms of life satisfaction. Since data on functionings often are lacking, this paper explores the conditions and assumptions under which capability deprivation can be inferred from readily available consumption data.