Unemployment impacts differently on the extremes of the distribution of a comprehensive well-being measure

Martin Binder and Alex Coad ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 22, issue 8, 619-627

Abstract: Unemployment has a heterogeneous effect on well-being. We combine a quantile analysis with matching techniques to analyse the negative impact of unemployment along the well-being distribution of a comprehensive well-being variable. In our analysis of British Household Panel Survey data (1996-2008) we focus on transitions into unemployment and find that average effects of unemployment on a comprehensive well-being variable are less strong than on typical life satisfaction measures. The effect of unemployment on a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12) is reversed and mentally less well-off individuals suffer from unemployment more strongly than those scoring high in mental well-being.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.962219

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