A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration

By Andrew E. Clark. 2006

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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk (2011, unknown): “…studies showing that contemporaneous unemployment has a strong, negative effect on subjective well-being, see e.g. Clark and Oswald (1994), Gerlach and Stephan (1996), Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998), Korpi (1997), Frey and Stutzer (2000, 2002), Clark (2003, 2006), Blanchflower and Oswald (2004).”
Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being (2009, background): “…indeed ample evidence for hedonic adaptation with regard to income and other pecuniary aspects of life (Easterlin 2006), unemployment seems to be different, as the existing evidence points to non-existent or only very moderate adaptation to unemployment (Clark 2006; Winkelmann and Winkelmann 1998).”
Financial satisfaction over the life course: The influence of assets and liabilities (2011, unknown): “People are less likely to adapt to unemployment (Clark, 2006; Winkelmann and Winkelmann, 1998), and the unemployed are less happy than others even after re-employment (Lucas et al.”
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis (2008, unknown): “As noted by Clark et al. (2008), one ECONLIT measure of this literature over the period 1960–2006 reveals that 61% of publications have appeared since 2000, and a remarkable 37% over the period 2004–6. This literature now covers a wide range of different issues, although it is probably true that the”
Deep and persistent disadvantage in Australia (2013, methodology): “Cobb-Clarke (2010), drawing on data from the Youth in Focus Project, compared average outcomes for 18 year olds in families that had never accessed the income support system to those 18 year olds in families receiving intensive income support.”
Is Any Job Better than No Job? Life Satisfaction and Re-employment (2010, result): “Adaptation, defined as “reduction in the affective intensity of favorable or unfavorable circumstances” (Frederick and Loewenstein 1999), has already been investigated in some studies with regard to unemployment (for a recent survey, see Clark 2006).”
Life satisfaction dynamics with quarterly life event data (2011, unknown): “We may here mention that we also implemented the sample selection rule used by Clark et al. (2008a), who dropped individuals from the sample who had more than one occurrence of the same event (results available upon request).”
Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers? (2012, methodology): “Although subjective measures of well-being were extensively used to analyze various labor market issues—such as unemployment (Winkelmann and Winkelmann 1998, Kassenboehmer and Haisken-DeNew 2009), unemployment duration (Clark 2006), income compar-”
Unequal hopes and lives in the USA: optimism, race, place, and premature mortality (2019, background): “…cannot participate in the labor force during the wait time for approval for disability, a period that can last up to 2 years.28 Long-term unemployment is strongly associated with unhappiness and is a condition that most individuals do not adapt back from (Clark and Oswald 1994; Clark 2006).”