Social contacts, unemployment, and experienced well-being: evidence from time-use data
发布日期：2025-03-01
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摘要：We analyze how differences in the frequency and intensity of social contacts contribute to the experienced well-being of employed and unemployed individuals. In the UK Time-Use Survey, we observe that people generally enjoy being with others more than being alone. The unemployed tend to feel worse than the employed when engaging in the same kind of activities, partly because they are more often alone. The unemployed cannot spend time with other people at work but spend slightly more time with private contacts than the employed. In terms of experienced well-being, the slight increase in time spent with family and friends (which people enjoy a lot) offsets the loss of work contacts (which people generally enjoy only a little). Hence, we do not find that the differences in the social-contact composition between the employed and the unemployed are associated with differences in their experienced well-being.
摘要中译：我们分析了社会交往的频率和强度差异如何影响就业者和失业者的幸福感。在英国时间使用调查中，我们发现人们一般更喜欢与他人在一起，而不是独处。在从事同类活动时，失业者的感觉往往比就业者差，部分原因是他们更经常独处。失业者在工作中无法与他人相处，但与私人接触的时间却比就业者略多。就体验幸福而言，与家人和朋友（人们非常喜欢）相处时间的略微增加抵消了工作接触时间的损失（人们一般只喜欢一点点工作接触）。因此，我们没有发现就业者和失业者在社会交往构成方面的差异与他们的幸福感差异有关。
作者：Hoang, TTA (Hoang, Thi Truong An)；Knabe, A (Knabe, Andreas)
文章来源：《JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS》
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