Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk

Economica

Volumn 78, Issue 310, 2011, Pages 283-293

  Knabe, Andreas ^a   Rätzel, Steffen ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PSYCHOLOGY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 79952665156     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: 14680335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2009.00816.x     Document Type: Article

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