We examine the gender differences in the magnitude of the effects of work transitions on subjective well-being using the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study data spanning from 2009 to 2016. We use the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) as a measure of self-reported levels of subjective well-being and apply the propensity score matching technique combined with the difference-in-differences strategy for the analysis. Our findings suggest that men tend to experience larger shifts in subjective well-being when becoming employed or unemployed compared with women; this gender gap is larger when becoming unemployed than employed. We further test and confirm that this gender gap widens between married couples and suggest that social norms or gender roles may be the underlying reasons for the gender differences.

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工作过渡，性别和主观幸福感

我们使用2009年至2016年的英国家庭纵向研究数据，研究了工作转变对主观幸福感影响程度的性别差异。我们使用一般健康状况问卷（GHQ-12）来衡量自我报告了主观幸福感水平，并应用倾向得分匹配技术和差异差异策略进行了分析。我们的研究结果表明，与女性相比，男性在就业或失业时往往会经历较大的主观幸福感变化。失业时，这种性别差距比就业时更大。我们进一步测试并确认，已婚夫妇之间的性别差距不断扩大，并建议社会规范或性别角色可能是造成性别差异的根本原因。