@article{d252a1c91ff74803845a8b42756168a2,
title = "Unemployment impacts differently on the extremes of the distribution of a comprehensive well-being measure",
abstract = "Unemployment has a heterogeneous effect on well-being. We combine a quantile analysis with matching techniques to analyse the negative impact of unemployment along the well-being distribution of a comprehensive well-being variable. In our analysis of British Household Panel Survey data (1996–2008) we focus on transitions into unemployment and find that average effects of unemployment on a comprehensive well-being variable are less strong than on typical life satisfaction measures. The effect of unemployment on a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12) is reversed and mentally less well-off individuals suffer from unemployment more strongly than those scoring high in mental well-being.",
keywords = "BHPS, quantile analysis, subjective well-being, treatment estimators, unemployment",
author = "Martin Binder and Alex Coad",
note = "Funding Information: Thanks for helpful comments on a different draft to Matias Ramirez, Rose Cairns, Ben Martin, Paul Nightingale, Tommaso Ciarli, Ohid Yaqub and Satoko Yasuda. This research was funded by the ESRC-TSB-BIS-NESTA as part of the ES/ J008427/1 grant on Skills, Knowledge, Innovation, Policy and Practice (SKIPPY). The authors are grateful for having been granted access to the BHPS data set, which was made available through the ESRC Data Archive. The data were originally collected by the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at the University of Essex (now incorporated within the Institute for Social and Economic Research). Neither the original collectors of the data nor the Archive bear any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here. Errors are ours. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, Taylor & Francis.",
year = "2015",
month = may,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1080/13504851.2014.962219",
language = "English",
volume = "22",
pages = "619--627",
journal = "Applied Economics Letters",
issn = "1350-4851",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "8",
}