Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Unemployment and Subjective Wellbeing: A Quantile Approach
利用英国家庭面板调查数据，通过分位数回归发现失业对主观幸福感的负面影响在幸福感高的人群中较小，高幸福感在失业时起到缓冲作用。
Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective wellbeing. Using panel quantile regression techniques, we analyse to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies along the (conditional) subjective wellbeing distribution. In our analysis of British Household Panel Survey data (1996–2008), we find that individuals with high life satisfaction suffer less from becoming unemployed. A similar but stronger effect is found for a broad mental wellbeing variable (GHQ‐12). Higher wellbeing seems to act like a safety net when becoming unemployed. We explore these findings by examining the heterogeneous unemployment effects over the conditional quantiles of various life domain satisfactions.