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Changing Identity: Retiring from UnemploymentClemens HetschkoFree University of Berlin (FUB) Andreas KnabeUniversity of Magdeburg - Institute of Economics and Business Administration; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Ronnie SchöbFreie Universitaet Berlin; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) July 29, 2011 CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3540 Abstract: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to controlling for changes in other life circumstances and suggest that retiring is associated with a switch in the relevant social norms that causes an increase in identity utility for the formerly unemployed. This is supportive of the idea that, by including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the economic theory of individual utility.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 30 Keywords: life satisfaction, retirement, unemployment, identity, social norm JEL Classification: I310, J260 working papers seriesDate posted: August 4, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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