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Unemployed and O.K. With It, if They’re Not Alone
People are less unhappy about being unemployed if their friends are also out of work, according to a new study from the World Bank based on British data.
Unemployment is typically associated with a significant decline in happiness. But unemployed people report a smaller drop in happiness if they are surrounded by fellow unemployed peers because the social norms about joblessness change.
In other words, not being alone in your struggle to find a job can be comforting.
There is a downside to having peers who are also unemployed, though: the relatively smaller drop in happiness means that people are less motivated to search for new work.
This in turn has ripple effects on other workers, who see their peers’ continued unemployment and thus feel even less distressed about their own jobless state, and so they also look less intensively for new work. And the vicious cycle continues. From the paper’s conclusion:
Unemployment is typically associated with a significant decline in happiness. But unemployed people report a smaller drop in happiness if they are surrounded by fellow unemployed peers because the social norms about joblessness change.
In other words, not being alone in your struggle to find a job can be comforting.
There is a downside to having peers who are also unemployed, though: the relatively smaller drop in happiness means that people are less motivated to search for new work.
This in turn has ripple effects on other workers, who see their peers’ continued unemployment and thus feel even less distressed about their own jobless state, and so they also look less intensively for new work. And the vicious cycle continues. From the paper’s conclusion:
The lesson to be drawn by these findings is that one’s employment decisions have a strong externality on other’s labor supply and job search eff ort, through comparison effects. Upon losing a job, if a relevant other is also jobless then both individuals search with less intensity. In the opposite scenario, if all relevant others are employed, search intensity increases for the unemployed…
If others are unemployed, I will search less and extend my unemployment duration, in turn affecting others’ return to work.
Fuente: kioskovirtual.es
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