Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie

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“…This suggests that the social work norm is weakened if unemployment becomes a social normality (Clark 2003;Shields and Price 2005;Shields et al 2009;Powdthavee 2007;Clark et al 2010), though the social norm effect may not be generated by unemployment per se but be induced by becoming dependent on welfare (see Chadi 2011). Hetschko et al (2014) show that when unemployed people retire, their life satisfaction increases. Since their objective life circumstances remain practically unaffected by this transition, they conclude that the happiness increase has to be attributed to the fact that moving from unemployment to retirement changes a person's social category and allows the non-employed to move from norm deviance to norm conformity.…”

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Partnership, Gender, and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment

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We examine the relationship between unemployment, life satisfaction and affective well-being depending on family status and, within couples, on the employment status of one's partner. Our data, that we collected using the Day Reconstruction Method, show that unemployment is negatively related to life satisfaction, but not to affective wellbeing. Living in a partnership strengthens the loss in life satisfaction of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person's partner is associated with a smaller loss in life satisfaction for unemployed men, but with a larger loss for women. We argue that these findings reflect to a large extent changes in cognitive well-being, which is closely related to identity utility. The unemployed's feeling of identity appears to be affected by traditional gender roles.

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“…The main hypothesis tested in Hetschko et al (2011) is that, since the unemployed give up the aspiration of having a job when entering retirement, the subsequent change in the relevant social norm causes the life satisfaction of an unemployed person to rise upon retirement; after retirement, they can comply with their new social category's norm after retirement, i.e. they are not supposed to work anymore.…”

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“…Unemployed men and women, in particular those with prior unemployment experiences, benefit substantially when they can leave unemployment and become retirees. Source: Hetschko et al (2011), …”

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“…A large share of the variation in life satisfaction between individuals could also be explained by time-invariant personal characteristics like personality traits or dispositions (Lykken and Tellegen 1996), whilst crosssection regressions cannot control for potential reverse causality; a person with lower baseline happiness due to personality traits might have lower employment prospects and would thus be more likely to retire from unemployment. Hetschko et al (2011), Table 5.…”

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“…To overcome this problem, in Hetschko et al (2011), we run an individual fixed effects OLS regression that captures time-invariant individual differences in life satisfaction (i.e. the baseline happiness).…”

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Cited by 42 publications

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