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Does past unemployment experience explain the transition happiness gap?
Journal of Comparative Economics, v 46(4), pp 1104-1121
01 Dec 2018
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Abstract
The profound economic and political changes of the 1990s had detrimental social effects in many domains of life in post-socialist countries, including diminishing life expectancy and growing unhappiness. Despite economic improvements in the second decade of transition, research has documented that happiness lagged behind. We test whether past unemployment experience can explain this "transition happiness gap in the context of Ukraine", a country with a painful delayed transition from planned to market economy. We analyze unique longitudinal data for the period 2003-2012. Current unemployment substantially reduces subjective wellbeing, and the effect is roughly 50% larger for men than for women. The effect of past unemployment is significant, but small in magnitude compared to the effect of current unemployment. However, it does correspond to around 8% of the "transition happiness gap" found by Guriev and Melnikov (2017), suggesting that past unemployment experience can be considered as a partial explanation.
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- Title
- Does past unemployment experience explain the transition happiness gap?
- Creators
- Edward C. Norton - University of Michigan–Ann ArborOlena Nizalova - University of KentIrina Murtazashvili - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of Comparative Economics, v 46(4), pp 1104-1121
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 18
- Grant note
- 649496 / European Union; European Commission
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000454970500013
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85047811002
- Other Identifier
- 991019168075704721
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