Andreas Knabe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3715065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Knabe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Knabe |
| SIGNATURE | KNABE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1298-0416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social contacts, unemployment, and experienced well-being: Evidence from time-use data
We analyze how differences in the frequency and intensity of social contacts contribute to the experienced well-being of employed and unemployed individuals. In the UK Time-Use Survey, we observe that people generally enjoy being with others more than being alone. The unemployed tend to feel worse than the employed when engaging in the same kind of activities, partly because they are more often alone. The unemployed cannot spend time with other p…
Time Use, Unemployment, and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis Using British Time-Use Data
We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person’s employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We do not find clear indications that employed and unemployed persons experience different average levels of emotional well-being when they engage in the same kinds of activities. For the employed, working belongs to one of the least enjo…
Replication: Emotional well-being and unemployment – Evidence from the American time-use survey
Parental time restrictions and the cost of children: Insights from a survey among mothers
An important aspect when analyzing economic inequality between households with children is time. At given monetary incomes, the material well-being of families may be very different depending on how much time parents have at their disposal. In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos, Schröder and Schmidt (J. Bus. Eco…
Die Nichterfüllung der Beschäftigungspflichtquote schwerbehinderter Menschen – Eine empirische Untersuchung möglicher Ursachen auf Ebene der deutschen Bundesländer
Diese Studie untersucht Faktoren, die die teilweise starken Unterschiede in der Beschäftigungsquote Schwerbehinderter zwischen den deutschen Bundesländern im Zeitraum von 2003 bis 2015 erklären können. Sie legt dabei besonderen Wert auf die Situation in Sachsen-Anhalt, das in diesem Zeitraum die deutschlandweit niedrigste Beschäftigungsquote aufweist. Die multivariate statistische Analyse liefert Hinweise darauf, dass der Erfüllungsgrad der Besch…
Looking Back in Anger? Retirement and Unemployment Scarring
Unemployment affects future working conditions and job security negatively, thus reducing life satisfaction after reemployment. These employment-related scars of unemployment should not matter anymore when a person has retired. Using German panel data, we analyze unemployed persons’ transition into retirement to test whether unemployment leaves scars beyond working life and thus for reasons that are not employment-related. We find that involuntar…
Multidimensional Well‐being and Regional Disparities in Europe
Using data from the OECD Regional Well‐Being Index – a set of quality‐of‐life indicators measured at the sub‐national level – we construct a set of composite well‐being indices. We analyze the extent to which the choice of five alternative aggregation methods affects the well‐being ranking of regions. We find that regional inequality in these composite measures is lower than regional inequality in real GDP per capita. For most aggregation methods…
Partnership, Gender, and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment
Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment
Spillover Effects of Minimum Wages under Union Wage Bargaining
es can drive up wages — and be harmful to employment — when bargaining follows the Kalai—Smorodinsky solution.
Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk: Scarring or Scaring
We reassess the ‘scarring’ hypothesis which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened expectations of becoming unemployed in the future, and that it is future insecurity that makes people unhappy. Hence the terminology should be altered by one letter: past unemployment ‘sca…
Minimum Wages and their Alternatives: A Critical Assessment
Do minimum wages reduce in-work poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? Germany suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the lower end of the wage distribution. We analyse the impact on employment, wage inequality, public expenditure, and incomes of poor households of three different policy options currently being discussed in Germany: a statutory minimum wage, a combinatio…
Dissatisfied with Life but Having a Good Day: Time‐use and Well‐being of the Unemployed
We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are more satisfied with their life than the unemployed and report more positive feelings when engaged in similar activities. Weighting these activities with t…
Minimum Wage Incidence: The Case for Germany
This paper analyzes the impact of a statutory minimum wage on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector for two scenarios: a competitive labor market and a monopsonistic labor market. Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we show that irrespective of which scenario adequately describes the labor market, a statutory minimum wage reduces employment and raises pu…
Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany
This paper investigates the relationship between the subjective well-being of both the employed and unemployed and regional unemployment rates. While both employed and unemployed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less negatively affected. This is consistent with a social norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an offsetting effect for women
Implementing endogenous inside options in Nash wage bargaining models
Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany
Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Dissatisfied with Life but Having a Good Day: Time‐use and Well‐being of the Unemployed
We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are more satisfied with their life than the unemployed and report more positive feelings when engaged in similar activities. Weighting these activities with t…
Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk: Scarring or Scaring
We reassess the ‘scarring’ hypothesis which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened expectations of becoming unemployed in the future, and that it is future insecurity that makes people unhappy. Hence the terminology should be altered by one letter: past unemployment ‘sca…
Partnership, Gender, and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment
Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment
Multidimensional Well‐being and Regional Disparities in Europe
Using data from the OECD Regional Well‐Being Index – a set of quality‐of‐life indicators measured at the sub‐national level – we construct a set of composite well‐being indices. We analyze the extent to which the choice of five alternative aggregation methods affects the well‐being ranking of regions. We find that regional inequality in these composite measures is lower than regional inequality in real GDP per capita. For most aggregation methods…
Replication: Emotional well-being and unemployment – Evidence from the American time-use survey
Looking Back in Anger? Retirement and Unemployment Scarring
Unemployment affects future working conditions and job security negatively, thus reducing life satisfaction after reemployment. These employment-related scars of unemployment should not matter anymore when a person has retired. Using German panel data, we analyze unemployed persons’ transition into retirement to test whether unemployment leaves scars beyond working life and thus for reasons that are not employment-related. We find that involuntar…
Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany
Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Minimum Wage Incidence: The Case for Germany
This paper analyzes the impact of a statutory minimum wage on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector for two scenarios: a competitive labor market and a monopsonistic labor market. Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we show that irrespective of which scenario adequately describes the labor market, a statutory minimum wage reduces employment and raises pu…
Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany
This paper investigates the relationship between the subjective well-being of both the employed and unemployed and regional unemployment rates. While both employed and unemployed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less negatively affected. This is consistent with a social norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an offsetting effect for women
Implementing endogenous inside options in Nash wage bargaining models
Dissatisfied with Life but Having a Good Day: Time‐use and Well‐being of the Unemployed
We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are more satisfied with their life than the unemployed and report more positive feelings when engaged in similar activities. Weighting these activities with t…
Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk: Scarring or Scaring
We reassess the ‘scarring’ hypothesis which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened expectations of becoming unemployed in the future, and that it is future insecurity that makes people unhappy. Hence the terminology should be altered by one letter: past unemployment ‘sca…
Minimum Wages and their Alternatives: A Critical Assessment
Do minimum wages reduce in-work poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? Germany suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the lower end of the wage distribution. We analyse the impact on employment, wage inequality, public expenditure, and incomes of poor households of three different policy options currently being discussed in Germany: a statutory minimum wage, a combinatio…
Spillover Effects of Minimum Wages under Union Wage Bargaining
es can drive up wages — and be harmful to employment — when bargaining follows the Kalai—Smorodinsky solution.
Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment
Partnership, Gender, and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment
Multidimensional Well‐being and Regional Disparities in Europe
Using data from the OECD Regional Well‐Being Index – a set of quality‐of‐life indicators measured at the sub‐national level – we construct a set of composite well‐being indices. We analyze the extent to which the choice of five alternative aggregation methods affects the well‐being ranking of regions. We find that regional inequality in these composite measures is lower than regional inequality in real GDP per capita. For most aggregation methods…
Die Nichterfüllung der Beschäftigungspflichtquote schwerbehinderter Menschen – Eine empirische Untersuchung möglicher Ursachen auf Ebene der deutschen Bundesländer
Diese Studie untersucht Faktoren, die die teilweise starken Unterschiede in der Beschäftigungsquote Schwerbehinderter zwischen den deutschen Bundesländern im Zeitraum von 2003 bis 2015 erklären können. Sie legt dabei besonderen Wert auf die Situation in Sachsen-Anhalt, das in diesem Zeitraum die deutschlandweit niedrigste Beschäftigungsquote aufweist. Die multivariate statistische Analyse liefert Hinweise darauf, dass der Erfüllungsgrad der Besch…
Looking Back in Anger? Retirement and Unemployment Scarring
Unemployment affects future working conditions and job security negatively, thus reducing life satisfaction after reemployment. These employment-related scars of unemployment should not matter anymore when a person has retired. Using German panel data, we analyze unemployed persons’ transition into retirement to test whether unemployment leaves scars beyond working life and thus for reasons that are not employment-related. We find that involuntar…
Parental time restrictions and the cost of children: Insights from a survey among mothers
An important aspect when analyzing economic inequality between households with children is time. At given monetary incomes, the material well-being of families may be very different depending on how much time parents have at their disposal. In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos, Schröder and Schmidt (J. Bus. Eco…
Time Use, Unemployment, and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis Using British Time-Use Data
We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person’s employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We do not find clear indications that employed and unemployed persons experience different average levels of emotional well-being when they engage in the same kinds of activities. For the employed, working belongs to one of the least enjo…
Replication: Emotional well-being and unemployment – Evidence from the American time-use survey
Social contacts, unemployment, and experienced well-being: Evidence from time-use data
We analyze how differences in the frequency and intensity of social contacts contribute to the experienced well-being of employed and unemployed individuals. In the UK Time-Use Survey, we observe that people generally enjoy being with others more than being alone. The unemployed tend to feel worse than the employed when engaging in the same kind of activities, partly because they are more often alone. The unemployed cannot spend time with other p…
Economics (18 works) · Labour economics (13 works) · Unemployment (13 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (6 works) · Political science (5 works)