Boon or bane? Others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-61

  Clark, Andrew ^a   Knabe, Andreas ^b   Rätzel, Steffen ^c  

^a PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Externalities; Job insecurity; Unemployment; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549100212     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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