城乡分割、就业状况与主观幸福感差异

Urban-Rural Divide,Employment,and Subjective Well-Being

本文讨论了不同人群主观幸福感的影响因素，并在对概率模型进行分解分析的基础上，对城乡之间以及城镇失业与就业居民之间的主观幸福感差异进行了比较分析。本文的结论发现，农村居民的主观幸福感高于城镇居民主要是由于预期的满足程度、收入变化预期、对生活状态改善的评价等差异所引起的；城镇失业与就业居民的主观幸福感差异则主要是由收入效应导致的。

Using decomposition analysis based on several probability models, this paper conducts a comparative analysis on the subjective well-being of rural and urban residents, and employed and unemployed persons in urban China. The findings show that rural residents have higher subjective well being than their urban counterparts and the differences mainly come from their differences in their aspiration for a better life, expectation of income growth in the coming years, and evaluation of improvements of their living standards in the past recent years. Unemployment reduces the subjective well-being of urban residents and the income effect is the main cause for the result.