Unemployment as a social norm: Psychological evidence from panel data
Unemployment as a social norm: Psychological evidence from panel data
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DOI：
10.1086/345560
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发表时间：
2003-04-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Clark, AE
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作者：
Clark, AE
本文使用七波面板数据来检验劳动力市场状况中的社会规范。研究表明，失业者的幸福感与参照组失业率(在区域、伴侣或家庭层面)呈显著正相关。这一结果对男性来说要强得多，对未被观察到的个体异质性的控制是稳健的。小组数据还显示，那些进入失业后幸福感下降最多的人保持失业的可能性较小。这些发现提出了一种基于参照组中不断变化的就业规范的效用效应的失业两极分化和滞后的心理学解释。
This article uses seven waves of panel data to test for social norms in labor market status. The unemployed's well-being is shown to be strongly positively correlated with reference group unemployment (at the regional, partner, or household level). This result, far stronger for men, is robust to controls for unobserved individual heterogeneity. Panel data also show that those whose well-being fell the most on entering unemployment are less likely to remain unemployed. These findings suggest a psychological explanation of both unemployment polarization and hysteresis, based on the utility effects of a changing employment norm in the reference group.