Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients.

Institutions of the welfare state are supposed to function in accordance with normative principles of redistributive justice, which should guide not only the allocation but also the withdrawal of resources. Our study examines justice assessments of sanctions for unemployed individuals receiving welfare benefits, a much-discussed variant of benefit withdrawal. We present results from a factorial survey that asked German citizens to indicate which sanction they would perceive as just under different scenarios.

Unemployment and hair cortisol as a biomarker of chronic stress.

Unemployment is widely considered an important chronic stressor. Using longitudinal data of initially employed German jobseekers, the present study examines whether unemployment is related to changes in hair cortisol concentration (HCC), a reliable biomarker for chronic stress. The results indicate that HCC is the highest initially when individuals are insecurely employed and decreases as people gain certainty about whether they enter unemployment or not.

COVID-19, normative attitudes and pluralistic ignorance in employer-employee relationships.

Employment relationships are embedded in a network of social norms that provide an implicit framework for desired behaviour, especially if contractual solutions are weak. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about major changes that have led to situations, such as the scope of short-time work or home-based work in a firm. Against this backdrop, our study addresses three questions: first, are there social norms dealing with these changes; second, are there differences in attitudes between employees and supervisors (misalignment); and third, are there differences between respondents' average attitudes and the attitudes expected to exist in the population (pluralistic ignorance).

"The impact of unemployment on cognitive, affective, and eudaimonic well-being facets: Investigating immediate effects and short-term adaptation": Correction.

Reports an error in "The impact of unemployment on cognitive, affective, and eudaimonic well-being facets: Investigating immediate effects and short-term adaptation" by Mario Lawes, Clemens Hetschko, Ronnie Schöb, Gesine Stephan and Michael Eid (, Advanced Online Publication, Apr 04, 2022, np). In the original article, the letter "M" in "M1" and "M2" throughout should not be italicized. The word "occurred" is corrected to "occurred" and the word "occurring" is corrected to "occurring" in several places throughout.

The impact of unemployment on cognitive, affective, and eudaimonic well-being facets: Investigating immediate effects and short-term adaptation.

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in on Jun 02 2022 (see record 2022-66262-001). In the original article, the letter "M" in "M1" and "M2" throughout should not be italicized. The word "occurred" is corrected to "occurred" and the word "occurring" is corrected to "occurring" in several places throughout.

[Longer Unemployment Insurance Benefits in Times of Crisis? Covid-19 and the Appropriate Maximum Benefit Duration].

This article deals with the question of which unemployment benefit durations are considered fair for which groups. In addition, it examines the extent to which individuals consider longer unemployment insurance benefit durations to be appropriate in times of economic crisis, such as the current situation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Longer reference periods can stabilize the income situation of benefit recipients and can provide time to search for an adequate job and thus increase matching quality.