Subjective Well-Being Scarring Through Unemployment: New Evidence from a Long-Running Panel.
Scarring effects of unemployment on subjective well-being (SWB), i.e. negative effects that remain even after workers reenter employment, are well documented in the literature. Nevertheless, the theoretical mechanisms by which unemployment leads to long-lasting negative consequences for SWB are stil...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 101; no. 3; pp. 1485 - 1519 |
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Mar2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=161313556&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 161313556 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00377732 SFR jtl: Social Forces issn: 00377732 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2023 vid: 101 iid: 3 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 161313556 10.1093/sf/soac022 ppf: 1485 ppct: 34 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 2.5MB tig: atl: Subjective Well-Being Scarring Through Unemployment: New Evidence from a Long-Running Panel. aug: au: Eberl, Andreas Collischon, Matthias Wolbring, Tobias affil: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , Findelgasse 7/9, 90402 Nuremberg , Germany Institute for Employment Research (IAB) , Regensburger Straße 100, 90478 Nuremberg , Germany su: Subjective well-being (Psychology) Unemployment Satisfaction Employment Employees sug: subj: Subjective well-being (Psychology) Unemployment Satisfaction Employment Employees ab: Scarring effects of unemployment on subjective well-being (SWB), i.e. negative effects that remain even after workers reenter employment, are well documented in the literature. Nevertheless, the theoretical mechanisms by which unemployment leads to long-lasting negative consequences for SWB are still under debate. Thus, we theorize that unemployment can have an enduring impact mainly through (1) the experience of unemployment as an incisive life event and (2) unemployment as a driver of future unemployment. In the empirical part, we focus on one important dimension of SWB: overall life satisfaction. Based on advanced longitudinal modeling that controls for group-specific trends, we estimate scarring through unemployment using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our results consistently show a large negative effect of unemployment on life satisfaction as well as significant scarring effects that last at least 5 years after reemployment for both men and women as well as for short- and long-term unemployment spells. Further analyses reveal that repeated periods of unemployment drive these effects and cause even longer lasting scarring, implying that there are hardly any adaptations to unemployment that buffer its effect on life satisfaction. We conclude that scarring effects mainly work through repeated episodes of unemployment. Regarding policy implications, our findings suggest that preventing unemployment, regardless of its duration, is beneficial for individual well-being not only in the short term. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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