Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Unemployment and Subjective Wellbeing: A Quantile Approach
Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Unemployment and Subjective Wellbeing: A Quantile Approach
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DOI：
10.1111/ecca.12150
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
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1.4
通讯作者：
Coad, Alex
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作者：
Binder, Martin;Coad, Alex
失业已被有力地证明会强烈降低主观幸福感。使用面板分位数回归技术，我们分析了失业的负面影响在多大程度上沿着（有条件的）主观幸福感分布。在我们对英国家庭小组调查数据（1996-2008）的分析中，我们发现生活满意度高的人失业的痛苦较小。一个类似的，但更强的效果是发现一个广泛的心理健康变量（GHQ-12）。更高的幸福感似乎在失业时起到了安全网的作用。我们通过研究不同生活领域满意度的条件分位数的异质性失业效应来探索这些发现。
Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective wellbeing. Using panel quantile regression techniques, we analyse to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies along the (conditional) subjective wellbeing distribution. In our analysis of British Household Panel Survey data (1996-2008), we find that individuals with high life satisfaction suffer less from becoming unemployed. A similar but stronger effect is found for a broad mental wellbeing variable (GHQ-12). Higher wellbeing seems to act like a safety net when becoming unemployed. We explore these findings by examining the heterogeneous unemployment effects over the conditional quantiles of various life domain satisfactions.