caa a22 4500 46791723X CHVBK 20180406152906.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-4609-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-4609-5 Elusive Effects of Unemployment on Happiness [Elektronische Daten] [Petri Böckerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas] ABSTRACT: This paper explores the connection between unemployment and subjective well-being in Finland using cross-sections for the years 1990, 1996 and 2000 from World Values Surveys. Interestingly, an unprecedented increase in the national unemployment rate (from 3 to 17%) did not produce a drop in the mean level of subjective well-being. Personally experiencing unemployment reduces life satisfaction, but does not have a significant effect on happiness in ordered logit estimation. However, generalized ordered logit estimation reveals that being unemployed has a negative effect on happiness at lower happiness scores, but no significant effect at high happiness levels. Springer, 2006 happiness nationallicence unhappiness nationallicence life satisfaction nationallicence unemployment nationallicence Böckerman Petri Labour Institute for Economic Research, Pitkansillanranta 3A, 00530, Helsinki, Finland aut Ilmakunnas Pekka Labour Institute for Economic Research, Pitkansillanranta 3A, 00530, Helsinki, Finland aut Social Indicators Research Springer Netherlands 79/1(2006-10-01), 159-169 0303-8300 79:1<159 2006 79 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-4609-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-4609-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Böckerman Petri Labour Institute for Economic Research, Pitkansillanranta 3A, 00530, Helsinki, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ilmakunnas Pekka Labour Institute for Economic Research, Pitkansillanranta 3A, 00530, Helsinki, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Springer Netherlands 79/1(2006-10-01), 159-169 0303-8300 79:1<159 2006 79 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer