Do workers accumulate resources during continuous employment and lose them during unemployment, and what does that mean for their subjective well-being?

ABSTRACT: Drawing on cumulative advantage/disadvantage and conservation of resources theories, I investigated changes in economic, social, and personal resources and in subjective well-being (SWB) of workers as they stayed continuously employed or continuously unemployed. I considered age, gender, and SES as potential amplifiers of inequality in resources and SWB. Using 28 yearly waves from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP 1985-2012), I conducted multilevel analysis with observations nested within participants. A longer duration of continuous employment predicted slightly higher economic resources and thereby slightly higher SWB over time. A longer organizational tenure had mixed effects on resources and predicted slight reductions in SWB via lower mastery. A longer duration of continuous unemp

SUBMITTER: Pavlova MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8699683 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature