Longhi, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-4115-3321, Nandi, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-8743-6178, Bryan, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-5000-8946 et al. (2 more authors) (2024) Life satisfaction and unemployment-the role of gender attitudes and work identity. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 71 (2). pp. 219-236. ISSN 0036-9292
Abstract
Unemployment has a strong negative effect on subjective well-being, but the effect varies across groups. Using an event study approach, we explore the sources of heterogeneity in the effect of the transition into unemployment on life satisfaction, focusing on work identity and gender role attitudes. All experience a loss of life satisfaction when they become unemployed, but we find greater heterogeneity of experience among men: the losses in life satisfaction are greater if they hold egalitarian rather than traditional gender role attitudes, and if they have strong rather than weak work identity. Among women, those holding traditional gender role attitudes experience larger losses. We discuss possible reasons for these results.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Scottish Journal of Political Economy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Scottish Economic Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | gender role attitudes; life satisfaction; unemployment; well-being; women; work identity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2023 16:00 |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2024 15:33 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/sjpe.12366 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:204522 |