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Employment status and subjective well-being: the role of the social norm to work.
- Source :
- Work, Employment & Society; Apr2016, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p309-333, 25p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This article examines to what extent a social norm to work moderates the relationship between employment status and subjective well-being. It was expected that the detrimental impact of non-employment on subjective well-being would be larger in countries with a stronger social norm. Using a direct measure of the social norm to work and employing data from 45 European countries, this study assessed subjective well-being levels of five employment status groups for men and women separately. Results showed that subjective well-being of unemployed men and women is unaffected by the social norm to work. However, non-working disabled men are worse off in countries with a stronger norm. Living in such a country also decreases the well-being gap between employed and retired men, whereas retired women are worse off in these countries. This effect for retirees disappears when a country’s GDP is taken into account, suggesting that norms matter less than affluence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09500170
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Work, Employment & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 113645502
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017014564602