Unemployment and Subjective Well-being Among the Youth: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Poland
The main aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of becoming unemployed on the well-being of young people. Particularly, we examine to what extent this relationship is moderated by the local unemployment rate. To address this topic, we use the Polish longitudinal dataset: Social Diagnosis: Ob...
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| author | Magdalena Rokicka Małgorzata Kłobuszewska Marta Palczyńska |
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| description | The main aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of becoming unemployed on the well-being of young people. Particularly, we examine to what extent this relationship is moderated by the local unemployment rate. To address this topic, we use the Polish longitudinal dataset: Social Diagnosis: Objective and Subjective Quality of Life in Poland (2005-2015).
Using a fixed effect model, we find that young individuals who lost a job feel worse off than their counterparts who remained employed, and that these effects differ by gender, with men being more susceptible to changes in the employment status. Moreover, we show that the impact of unemployment on the well-being of men is the smaller the higher the unemployment rate is. However, contrary to expectations, this effect is driven by the decreasing well-being of employed men and not by a decline in the distress level of unemployed men when aggregate unemployment grows. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e476085426bf458295c40b5b8b5f6e8a2022-12-22T03:11:37ZengTallinn UniversityStudies of Transition States and Societies1736-87581736-874X2018-12-011036885Unemployment and Subjective Well-being Among the Youth: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in PolandMagdalena RokickaMałgorzata KłobuszewskaMarta PalczyńskaThe main aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of becoming unemployed on the well-being of young people. Particularly, we examine to what extent this relationship is moderated by the local unemployment rate. To address this topic, we use the Polish longitudinal dataset: Social Diagnosis: Objective and Subjective Quality of Life in Poland (2005-2015). Using a fixed effect model, we find that young individuals who lost a job feel worse off than their counterparts who remained employed, and that these effects differ by gender, with men being more susceptible to changes in the employment status. Moreover, we show that the impact of unemployment on the well-being of men is the smaller the higher the unemployment rate is. However, contrary to expectations, this effect is driven by the decreasing well-being of employed men and not by a decline in the distress level of unemployed men when aggregate unemployment grows.http://publications.tlu.ee/index.php/stss/article/view/596/563unemploymentsubjective well-beingyouthlongitudinal data |
| spellingShingle | Magdalena Rokicka Małgorzata Kłobuszewska Marta Palczyńska Unemployment and Subjective Well-being Among the Youth: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Poland Studies of Transition States and Societies unemployment subjective well-being youth longitudinal data |
| title | Unemployment and Subjective Well-being Among the Youth: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Poland |
| title_full | Unemployment and Subjective Well-being Among the Youth: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Poland |
| title_fullStr | Unemployment and Subjective Well-being Among the Youth: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Poland |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unemployment and Subjective Well-being Among the Youth: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Poland |
| title_short | Unemployment and Subjective Well-being Among the Youth: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Poland |
| title_sort | unemployment and subjective well being among the youth evidence from a longitudinal study in poland |
| topic | unemployment subjective well-being youth longitudinal data |
| url | http://publications.tlu.ee/index.php/stss/article/view/596/563 |
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