%0 Report %A Clark, Andrew E. %T A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration %D 2006 %8 2006 Oct %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 2406 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2406 %X 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. %K unemployment duration %K unemployment %K life satisfaction %K habituation