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| Title: | | Partnership, gender roles and the well-being cost of unemployment  |
| Authors: | | Andreas Knabe Ronnie Schöb Joachim Weimann |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo Working Paper: Behavioural Economics 3932 |
| Abstract: | | We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person's partner reduces the identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed's feeling of identity is affected by traditional gender roles, while this does not seem to be the case for the affective part of their subjective well-being. |
| Subjects: | | unemployment happiness life satisfaction Day Reconstruction Method identity partnership gender roles |
| JEL: | | I31 J60 J22 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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