Unemployment as a Social Norm: Psychological Evidence from Panel Data

By Andrew E. Clark. Journal of Labor Economics, 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Life satisfaction effects of unemployment in Europe: The moderating influence of labour market policy (2014, background): “While Mavridis (2010; see also Clark, 2003) finds that individuals who suffer from larger drops in life satisfaction after job loss have shorter unemployment durations, Anderson (2009: 348; see also Korpi, 1997; Waters and Moore, 2002) argues that low life satisfaction may translate into…”
The social context of well-being. (2004, background): “(c) Unemployment As has been long established in the literature, individuals who are unemployed show significantly lower measures of subjective well-being (Clark 2003).”
Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day: Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed (2010, neutral): “…how a person assesses his life satisfaction have produced overwhelming evidence that the unemployed suffer from lower 16 life satisfaction than the employed (e.g., Clark and Oswald (1994), Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998), Di Tella et al. (2001), Clark (2003), and Blanchflower and Oswald (2004)).”
Good for the Soul: the relationship between work, wellbeing and psychological capital (2009, background): “and unemployment adversely affect mental health (Adam and Flatau, 2005; Flatau et al., 2000; Clark and Oswald, 1994; Goldsmith et al., 1997; Theodossiou, 1997; Clark et al. 2001; Clark 2003; Heckman, 2005).”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “Clark (2003) shows that mental stress scores on entering unemployment predict unemployment duration: those who suffered the sharpest drop in well-being upon entering unemployment were the quickest to leave it.”
"It Wasn't Me, It Was Them!" Social Influence in Risky Behaviour by Adolescents (2003, positive): “Empirical evidence of concern about one’s own position relative to others has been uncovered using both econometric (Clark and Oswald, 1996; Clark, 2003) and experimental (Zizzo and Oswald, 2001; Fehr and Schmidt, 2003) methods.”
Using wellbeing for public policy: Theory, measurement, and recommendations (2016, background): “Furthermore, the shadow prices of unemployment in different contexts can be reliably calculated; these prices include contextual factors such as unemployment as a norm or as an exception, and other factors, such as gender and age (Clark & Oswald, 2002; Clark, 2003).”
Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility (2009, neutral): “Highly educated people view themselves as fatter, holding weight constant, than do those with low levels of education.”
Mental Health of Parents and Life Satisfaction of Children: A Within-Family Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission of Well-Being (2008, positive): “Following prior studies on how to model psychological well-being (Clark, 2003; Gardner & Oswald, 2007), a similar set of controls were included in each parent's mental distress equations, with the addition of each parent's age.”
Happy People or Happy Places? A Multilevel Modeling Approach to the Analysis of Happiness and Well-Being (2012, methodology): “A number of separate scales can be identified and ideally, we would like to have information on all the variables that appear to have a relationship with happiness, as discussed in the section Measuring Subjective Happiness and its Determinants: A Multilevel Problem? for all possible levels, in orde”
Being Independent is a Great Thing: Subjective Evaluations of Self-Employment and Hierarchy (2008, neutral): “…wage differentials reflect non-monetary benefits from work adequately only if a labour market is sufficiently competitive, non-monetary benefits can also be detected in job satisfaction differentials if inefficiencies exist, e.g. if there are rents in the labour market (Clark 2003; Lalive 2002).”