Social Consequences of Unemployment

A wide range of studies showed that experiencing unemployment doesn’t only entail economic but also social or private consequences. In line with this conclusion the project intends to deal with the effects of unemployment on familiar decisions (especially: fertility decisions). Besides the "classical" inspection of (micro-)effects of unemployment on affected people’s decision behaviour, the project is going to place emphasis on macro effects. More specifically, the aim is to show effects on fertility decisions of households in economic security which are mediated through the perception of the (regional) environment’s economic insecurities.