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ToolsLonghi, Simonetta, Nandi, Alita, Bryan, Mark, Connolly, Sara and Gedikli, Cigdem (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
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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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| Additional Information: | CODE AVAILABILITY: The code used to transform the Understanding Society survey data files can be made available by the authors on request. DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT: Data files used for the analysis cannot be made available due to data access restrictions. The Understanding Society (End User License version) data files were used for this analysis. These data files can be accessed from the UK Data Service (https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6614) by registered users after they agree to the terms and conditions of accessing the data. The code used to transform the data files can be made available by the authors on request. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | gender role attitudes,life satisfaction,unemployment,well-being,women,work identity,sociology and political science,economics and econometrics,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Institute for Volunteering Research Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Research on Children and Families Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2025 17:30 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2025 10:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98419 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/sjpe.12366 |
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