The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
直接衡量了工作社会规范的强度，发现规范越强，失业者再就业越快，且失业者的生活满意度下降越大，表明社会压力通过效用差异影响行为。
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through nonmarket interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The stronger the norm, the more quickly unemployed people find a new job. This behavior can be explained by utility differences, probably due to social pressure. Unemployed people are significantly less happy than employed people and their reduction in life satisfaction is the larger, the stronger the norm is.