Dissatisfied with Life but Having a Good Day: Time-use and Well-being of the Unemployed

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Knabe, Andreas; Raetzel, Steffen; Schoeb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim
• 署名单位: Free University of Berlin; Otto von Guericke University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02347.x
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 867-889
• 关键词: satisfaction; economists; experience; utility; HEALTH

摘要

We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are more satisfied with their life than the unemployed and report more positive feelings when engaged in similar activities. Weighting these activities with their duration shows, however, that average experienced utility does not differ between the two groups. Although the unemployed feel sadder when engaged in similar activities, they can compensate this by using the time the employed are at work in more enjoyable ways.