The restorative effect of work after unemployment: An intraindividual analysis of subjective well-being recovery through reemployment.

This study examines the extent to which reemployment restores individuals’ subjective well-being following a period of unemployment. Applying fixed effects models to the large-scale longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey, we find that recovery of subjective well-being upon reemployment is fast, complete and enduring, even when individuals take less favorable employment options to return to work. By contrast, transitions into economic inactivity following unemployment are accompanied by persistent scars on subsequent well-being trajectories. This study advances our understanding of well-being development over the entire employment–unemployment–reemployment cycle. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research