Time Use, Emotional Well-Being, and Unemployment: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
American Economic Review
vol. 102,
no. 3, May 2012
(pp. 594-99)
Abstract
This paper provides new evidence on the time use and emotional well-being of unemployed individuals in the weeks before and after starting a new job. The major findings are: (1) time spent on home production drops sharply at the time of re-employment, even when controlling for individual fixed effects; (2) time spent on leisure-related activities, which the unemployed find less enjoyable, drops on re-employment, but less so when controlling for individual fixed effects; (3) the unemployed report higher levels of sadness during specific episodes of the day than the employed; and (4) sadness decreases abruptly at the time of re-employment.Citation
Krueger, Alan B., and Andreas I. Mueller. 2012. "Time Use, Emotional Well-Being, and Unemployment: Evidence from Longitudinal Data." American Economic Review, 102 (3): 594-99. DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.3.594Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital
- I31 General Welfare
- J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search