Shen Jing, Kogan Irena
MZES, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Front Sociol. 2020 Feb 28;5:10. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2020.00010. eCollection 2020.
Driven by the ongoing debate of job loss vs. income loss in understanding the detrimental effect of unemployment, this study examines how perceptions of unemployment and the resulting levels of life satisfaction differ by immigration status. Based on a countrywide longitudinal dataset in the UK, findings show that immigrant men's life satisfaction suffers more from the detrimental effect of job loss , whereas that of native-born men suffers more in the pecuniary respect, which is mainly driven by perceived financial strain, instead of objective income loss. By further examining the heterogeneity among immigrant men themselves, we find similar differences between recent non-EU immigrant men and the rest of the group. While job loss causes a deeper decline in life satisfaction for recent non-EU immigrant men, income loss causes a deeper decline in life satisfaction for recent EU and established immigrant men. We attribute those differences to the extent to which one's legal status in the country is vulnerable to unemployment.
在关于失业的不利影响是理解为工作岗位丧失还是收入损失的持续争论的推动下，本研究考察了对失业的认知以及由此产生的生活满意度水平如何因移民身份而异。基于英国的一个全国性纵向数据集，研究结果表明，移民男性的生活满意度受失业不利影响的程度更大，而本土出生男性的生活满意度在金钱方面受影响更大，这主要是由感知到的经济压力而非客观的收入损失所驱动。通过进一步考察移民男性自身的异质性，我们发现近期非欧盟移民男性与该群体其他成员之间存在类似差异。虽然失业会导致近期非欧盟移民男性的生活满意度下降幅度更大，但收入损失会导致近期欧盟移民男性和已定居移民男性的生活满意度下降幅度更大。我们将这些差异归因于一个人在该国的法律地位受失业影响的程度。
