We provide an up-to-date quantitative synthesis of the evidence on the effect of
unemployment on wellbeing based on 46 samples reported in 29 studies published …

Research by psychologists and others has consistently found that employees experience
better psychological well-being than those who are unemployed. This finding has proven …

Past unemployment may have a pervasive psychological impact that occurs across nations.
We investigate the association between unemployment events across working life and …

This paper considers the psychological impact of past unemployment. Using 11 waves of
German panel data, we show that life satisfaction is lower not only for the current …

The effect of unemployment on mental health was examined with meta-analytic methods
across 237 cross-sectional and 87 longitudinal studies. The average overall effect size was …

Among the working-age population, one of the most damaging individual experiences is
unemployment. Many previous studies have confirmed the devastating effects of …

Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective wellbeing. Using
panel quantile regression techniques, we analyse to what extent the negative impact of …

There is consistent evidence that unemployment is detrimental to the well-being of the
individuals involved (for a recent review see Murphy & Athanasou, 1999). What is less clear …

The authors used theoretical models to organize the diverse unemployment literature, and
meta-analytic techniques were used to examine the impact of unemployment on worker well …

This article examines the consequences of underemployment for the well-being of workers
in European countries. Previous studies of the impact of underemployment on well-being …