You're fired! the causal negative effect of entry unemployment on life satisfaction

Economic Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 536, 2009, Pages 448-462

  Kassenboehmer, Sonja C ^a   Haisken DeNew, John P ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HUMAN CAPITAL; INCOME; INVESTMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 64649094008     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02246.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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