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.
This paper investigates the relationship between the subjective well-being of both the employed and unemployed and regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an offsetting effect for women.
Nic Marks合作论文数1
Felicia A. Huppert合作论文数School of Psychology, University of New South Wales;Well-being Institute, University of Cambridge;Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge;Black Dog Institute;Body, Heart and Mind in Business Research Group, University of Sydney Business School1
Johannes Siegrist合作论文数Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf;Institute of Medical Sociology, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf1
Morten Wahrendorf合作论文数1Steffen Rätzel合作论文数1
Alois Stutzer合作论文数Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel1
Andreas Knabe合作论文数Lehrstuhl fü Finanzwissenschaft, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg1
Joar Vittersø合作论文数Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø1
