Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282706 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16579
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction measures. Using the LISS panel, a representative longitudinal survey of the Dutch population, we estimate the effects by inverse propensity score weighting in a difference-in-differences design in order to deal with unobserved heterogeneity and unbalanced covariate distribution between treated and control units potentially associated with the dynamics of the outcome variables. We find that, after job loss, individuals increase their network size by strengthening their closest contacts within the family, spending more time with neighbors, and making more use of social media. Although they devote their extra leisure time mostly to private activities, our results do not support the hypothesis of social exclusion following unemployment.
Subjects: 
unemployment
job loss
social exclusion
leisure
social satisfaction
doubly robust difference-in-differences
JEL: 
I31
J01
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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