Social contacts, unemployment, and experienced well-being: evidence from time-use data
利用英国时间使用调查数据，分析社会接触的频率和强度如何影响就业者与失业者的体验幸福感，发现失业者因独处时间更多而感觉更差，但更多与家人朋友相处抵消了工作接触的损失。
Abstract We analyze how differences in the frequency and intensity of social contacts contribute to the experienced well-being of employed and unemployed individuals. In the UK Time-Use Survey, we observe that people generally enjoy being with others more than being alone. The unemployed tend to feel worse than the employed when engaging in the same kind of activities, partly because they are more often alone. The unemployed cannot spend time with other people at work but spend slightly more time with private contacts than the employed. In terms of experienced well-being, the slight increase in time spent with family and friends (which people enjoy a lot) offsets the loss of work contacts (which people generally enjoy only a little). Hence, we do not find that the differences in the social-contact composition between the employed and the unemployed are associated with differences in their experienced well-being.