Family matters: The effects of parental unemployment in early childhood and adolescence on subjective well-being later in life
| Autor: | Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Research programme GEM |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Life-cycle analysis German 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Early childhood 050207 economics Subjective well-being Young adult media_common German socio-economic panel 05 social sciences Life satisfaction Working time language.human_language Company closures Unemployment language Psychology Parental unemployment Demography Panel data |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 181, 312-331. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV |
| ISSN: | 0167-2681 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.05.005 |
| Popis: | We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and experienced during early (0–5 years) and late (11–15 years) childhood leads to lower life satisfaction at ages 18–31. Nevertheless, parental unemployment can also have a positive effect depending on the age and gender of the child. Our results are robust even after controlling for local unemployment, individual and family characteristics, parental job loss expectations, financial resources, and parents’ working time when growing up. These findings imply that the adverse effects associated with parental unemployment experienced at a young age tend to last well into young adulthood and are more nuanced than previously thought. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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