Are there Geographical Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?

By Nattavuudh Powdthavee. 2007

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment (2014, unknown): “Further supporting evidence was obtained using data from Australia (Shields et al. 2009), South Africa (Powdthavee 2007), and Germany (Clark et al. 2010).”
Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity (2008, background): “Powdthavee (2007) finds a weaker social norm effect in South Africa.”
Socio-Demographic Variables, General Psychological Well-Being and the Mental Health Continuum in an African Context (2012, background): “Employment is a major contributor to the overall functioning of individuals and of society in both developed and developing countries (Hinks and Gruen 2005; Powdthavee 2007 ).”
Household finances and well-being in Australia: An empirical analysis of comparison effects☆ (2016, background): “In addition, Clark (2003) and Powdthavee (2007) show that there is a reduced stigma to being unemployed in areas of high unemployment.”
A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration (2006, background): “evidence of a small increase in wellbeing after the first 3/6 months of unemployment: see Warr and Jackson (1987) and Warr (1989), for example.”
Well-Being across America (2011, unknown): “…Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998), Frey and Stutzer (2002), Clark (2003), Blanchflower and Oswald (2004), Graham (2005), Oswald (1997), Sacker and Wiggins (2002), Van Praag and Ferreri-Carbonell (2004), Shields and Wheatley Price (2005), Oswald and Powdthavee (2007), and Propper et al. (2005).”
Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility (2009, unknown): “Economists are generically loathe to believe that this could be irrational (Cutler et al, 2003), and tend to assume that obese people are contentedly fat.7 A simple step, taken before by Oswald and Powdthavee (2007) and Graham (2008), is then to study if happiness is lower among heavier people.”
Putting a price tag on friends, relatives, and neighbours: Using surveys of life satisfaction to value social relationships (2008, result): “This is consistent with previous studies that find large non-pecuniary costs associated with being unemployed (see also Winkelmann and Winkelmann, 1998; Powdthavee, 2006).”
Work, Jobs and Well-Being Across the Millennium (2009, result): “2 Similar results have been reported using German (Clark et al., 2008c) and South African ( Powdthavee, 2007 )”
Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages (2008, unknown): “For reasons not fully understood, GHQ scores are trending slightly up through time in Britain (Oswald and Powdthavee 2007), and we adjust for that in the later analysis.”
Happy People or Happy Places? A Multilevel Modeling Approach to the Analysis of Happiness and Well-Being (2012, background): “Powdthavee (2007) examined the role of social norms in the relationship between happiness and unemployment, using cross-sectional data in South Africa and also reported that unemployment appears to be less detrimental Ballas and Tranmer 73 to happiness in regions where the rate of unemployment is…”