Mousteri Victoria, Daly Michael, Delaney Liam
Behavioural Science Centre, Stirling Management School, Stirling University, FK94LA, United Kingdom.
Behavioural Science Centre, Stirling Management School, Stirling University, FK94LA, United Kingdom; UCD Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Soc Sci Res. 2018 May;72:146-169. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.01.007. Epub 2018 Mar 1.
Past unemployment may have a pervasive psychological impact that occurs across nations. We investigate the association between unemployment events across working life and subsequent psychological well-being across 14 European countries. Additionally, we consider the influence of between-country differences in labour market institutions and conditions on the cross-country well-being effects of unemployment. Data detailing life-long employment trajectories and contemporary life conditions are drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. The well-being impact of unemployment is modeled using linear, multi-level specifications. Each six-month spell of past unemployment is found to predict reduced quality of life and life satisfaction after the age of 50, having adjusted for a broad range of individual and country-specific covariates. In contrast, the impact of past unemployment on depression is explained by individual demographic factors. We identify the first comparative long-term evidence that unemployment welfare scarring may be a broad, international phenomenon.
过去的失业经历可能会产生一种跨越国界的普遍心理影响。我们研究了14个欧洲国家整个工作生涯中的失业事件与随后的心理健康之间的关联。此外，我们还考虑了各国劳动力市场制度和条件的差异对失业的跨国幸福感影响。详细记录终身就业轨迹和当代生活状况的数据来自欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查。失业对幸福感的影响采用线性多层次模型进行建模。在调整了一系列广泛的个人和国家特定协变量后，发现过去每经历六个月的失业期，都会导致50岁以后生活质量和生活满意度下降。相比之下，过去失业对抑郁的影响则由个人人口因素来解释。我们首次提供了比较性的长期证据，表明失业福利创伤可能是一种广泛存在的国际现象。
