Losing a Job: The Nonpecuniary Cost of Unemployment in the United States

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Well-being is more than happiness and life satisfaction: a multidimensional analysis of 21 countries (2020, background): “Previous research on unemployment and well-being has often focused on mental health problems among the unemployed [46] but there are also numerous studies of differences in positive aspects of well-being, mainly life satisfaction and happiness [22].”
Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor (2016, background): “Job loss can foil attempts at asset building—especially if families drain their savings to survive unemployment spells (Mortensen 1986)—and can damage workers’ mental and physical health and well-being (Linn, Sandifer, and Stein 1985; Paul and Moser 2009; Young 2012).”