Arbeitspapier

You'll Never Walk Alone: Unemployment, Social Networks and Leisure Activities

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We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction measures. Using the LISS panel, a representative longitudinal survey of the Dutch population, we estimate the effects by inverse propensity score weighting in a difference-in-differences design in order to deal with unobserved heterogeneity and unbalanced covariate distribution between treated and control units potentially associated with the dynamics of the outcome variables. We find that, after job loss, individuals increase their network size by strengthening their closest contacts within the family, spending more time with neighbors, and making more use of social media. Although they devote their extra leisure time mostly to private activities, our results do not support the hypothesis of social exclusion following unemployment.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16579

Classification
Wirtschaft
General Welfare; Well-Being
Labor Economics: General
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Subject
unemployment
job loss
social exclusion
leisure
social satisfaction
doubly robust difference-in-differences

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
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Filomena, Mattia
Picchio, Matteo
Event
Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
(when)
2023

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  • Filomena, Mattia
  • Picchio, Matteo
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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  • 2023

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