Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment

Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb () and Joachim Weimann
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Ronnie Schöb: School of Business and Economics, Freie Universität Berlin
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No 120019, FEMM Working Papers from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management

Abstract: We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person's partner reduces the identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed's feeling of identity is affected by traditional gender roles, while this does not seem to be the case for the affective part of their subjective well-being.

Keywords: unemployment; happiness; life satisfaction; Day Reconstruction Method; identity; partnership; gender roles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J22 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2012-09
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