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Life satisfaction and unemployment—The role of gender attitudes and work identity

Simonetta Longhi Orcid Logo, Alita Nandi Orcid Logo, Mark Bryan Orcid Logo, Sara Connolly Orcid Logo, Cigdem Gedikli Orcid Logo

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 219 - 236

Swansea University Author: Cigdem Gedikli Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/sjpe.12366

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Unemployment has a strong negative effect on subjective wellbeing, 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....

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Published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy
ISSN: 0036-9292 1467-9485
Published: Wiley 2024
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64704
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Abstract: Unemployment has a strong negative effect on subjective wellbeing, 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.
Keywords: Gender role attitudes, life satisfaction, unemployment, well-being, women, work identity
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funders: This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council Grant ES/N003586/1.
Issue: 2
Start Page: 219
End Page: 236

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