@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp2406, author={Clark, Andrew E.}, title={A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration}, year={2006}, month={Oct}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={2406}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2406}, abstract={Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The panel results show little evidence of habituation to unemployment in Europe in the 1990's.}, keywords={unemployment duration;unemployment;life satisfaction;habituation}, }