Journal of Economic Psychology ( IF 3.000 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 , DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2021.102363 Thi Truong An Hoang , Andreas Knabe
We use data from the well-being module of the American Time-Use Survey (ATUS) 2010–2013 to reexamine the relationship between unemployment and emotional well-being. We replicate two previous studies (Krueger & Mueller, 2012; Dolan, Kudrna, & Stone, 2017) which have produced differing findings on this relationship, and analyze what factors cause the differences in their outcomes. We find that the results critically depend on the definition of employment statuses and the choice of well-being measure. The unemployed appear sadder and more in pain than the employed, but no other emotion queried in the ATUS has worse values for the unemployed than for the employed. Aggregate emotional well-being measures suggest that unemployment is not negatively related to emotional well-being. Applying a wider instead of narrow definition of unemployment tends to result in better emotional well-being scores for the unemployed, mainly because job leavers and new or re-entrants into the labor market report better emotions than the group of people who are unemployed due to an involuntary job loss.
中文翻译:
复制:情绪健康和失业-来自美国时间使用情况调查的证据
我们使用2010-2013年美国时间使用状况调查(ATUS)的幸福感模块中的数据来重新检查失业与情感幸福感之间的关系。我们复制了之前的两项研究(Krueger&Mueller,2012; Dolan,Kudrna,&Stone,2017),它们对这种关系产生了不同的发现,并分析了导致其结果差异的因素。我们发现,结果在很大程度上取决于就业状况的定义和福祉措施的选择。失业者比受雇者显得更悲伤,痛苦更多,但是在ATUS中查询的其他情绪对失业者而言没有比受雇者更糟的价值。综合的情绪幸福感度量表明,失业与情绪幸福感没有负相关。