The effect of unemployment on life satisfaction : a cross-national comparison between Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States / by Wen-Hao Chen and Feng Hou.: CS11-0019/408E-PDF
"This paper investigates the effect of unemployment on life satisfaction from a comparative perspective. It also tests whether the link between unemployment and life satisfaction is moderated or reinforced by contextual unemployment across regions within a country—either through a negative spillover or a positive social-norm effect, or both. The results suggest that noticeable non-pecuniary costs are associated with unemployment in the four countries studied. Cross-national differences also emerged in the impact of the moderating factors. Others’ unemployment, that is, overall regional unemployment, is a strong moderating factor of own unemployment in Canada and to a lesser extent in the United States; the effect is ambiguous in the United Kingdom and exacerbating in Germany. The results also support a negative spillover effect of others’ unemployment on the employed in the United States and Germany, no spillover effect in the United Kingdom and, surprisingly, a positive overall spillover effect in Canada. Sensitivity testing further revealed that this Canadian anomaly was a phenomenon mainly in Atlantic Canada, not across the whole country"--Abstract, p. 5.
Permanent link to this Catalogue record:
publications.gc.ca/pub?id=9.859345&sl=0
| Department/Agency | Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch, issuing body. |
|---|---|
| Title | The effect of unemployment on life satisfaction : a cross-national comparison between Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States / by Wen-Hao Chen and Feng Hou. |
| Variant title | Cross-national comparison between Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States |
| Series title | Analytical Studies Branch research paper series, 1205-9153 ; no. 408 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Effet du chômage sur la satisfaction à l’égard de la vie : comparaison transnationale entre le Canada, l’Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et les États-Uni. "Release date: July 31, 2018." Includes bibliographic references (p. 26-28). |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada, c2018. |
| Author / Contributor | Chen, Wen-Hao, author. |
| Description | 28 p. : col. charts. |
| ISBN | 978-0-660-27318-1 |
| Catalogue number |
|
| Departmental catalogue number | 11F0019M No. 408 |
| Subject terms | Statistics Unemployment |