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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Année : 2022

Occupational status and life satisfaction in the UK: The miserable middle?

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We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling evidence for men of a U-shaped relationship in cross-section data: employees in medium-status occupations report lower life satisfaction scores than those of employees in either low- or high-status occupations. This puzzle disappears in panel data: the satisfaction of any man rises as he moves up the status ladder. The culprit seems to be immobility: the miserable middle is caused by men who have always been in medium-status occupations. There is overall little evidence of a link between occupational status and life satisfaction for women, although this relationship for higher-educated women does look more like that for men.

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halshs-03957226 , version 1 (26-01-2023)

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Yannis Georgellis, Andrew E. Clark, Emmanuel Apergis, Catherine Robinson. Occupational status and life satisfaction in the UK: The miserable middle?. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 204, pp.509-527. ⟨10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.045⟩. ⟨halshs-03957226⟩
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