Jobless, friendless and broke: what happens to different areas of life before and after unemployment?

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Journal Article

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Publication date

June 1, 2011

Summary:

 Using a nationally representative longitudinal dataset of the British people, this paper explores how different areas of a person’s life evolved before and after unemployment. There is evidence that unemployment is preceded, on average, by a year of dissatisfaction with one’s finance and job, for both genders. Having entered unemployment, men and women reported a significant and persistent drop in satisfaction with finance and social life, which perhaps explains why there is little overall hedonic adaptation to unemployment. This paper proposes a two-layer model to study leads and lags in life satisfaction to changes in employment status.

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Economica

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0335.2011.00905.x

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14680335

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