TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stutzer, Alois
AU  - Lalive, Rafael
        TI  - The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
        PY  - 2001/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 300
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp300
        AB  - Social norms are usually neglected in economics because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to live off one’s own income and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The stronger the norm, the more quickly unemployed people find a new job. This behavior can be explained by utility differences, probably due to social pressure. Unemployed people are significantly less happy than employed people and their reduction in life satisfaction is the larger, the stronger the norm is.
        KW  - duration of unemployment
KW  - unemployment
KW  - subjective well-being
KW  - social norms
KW  - Job searching
        ER  -