This article contributes to the existing literature on the effects of unemployment on subjective well-being (SWB) by partnership status. We argue that material and latent deprivation can explain the effects of becoming and remaining unemployed on SWB by partnership status, as both partners and their employment status crucially shape the extent of deprivation. To test our hypothesis about partnership-specific unemployment effects on SWB and the mediating roles of latent deprivation (in terms of status loss) and material deprivation, we use 14 waves of German panel data. To identify time-varying unemployment effects, we rely on time-distributed fixed effects models. Our results suggest a strong negative and rather time-constant impact of unemployment on SWB, buffered over time for those with working or nonworking partners. Furthermore, our results indicate in particular material deprivation but also latent deprivation to be relevant mechanisms for explaining partnership-specific trajectories in the loss of SWB.

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躲避风暴：伙伴关系能否缓冲失业带来的福利成本？

本文为关于失业对伴侣关系状态主观幸福感 (SWB) 的影响的现有文献做出了贡献。我们认为，物质剥夺和潜在剥夺可以解释合伙人身份导致失业和持续失业对主观幸福感的影响，因为合伙人和他们的就业状况对剥夺程度起着至关重要的作用。为了检验我们关于特定伙伴关系的失业对主观幸福感的影响以及潜在剥夺（就地位丧失而言）和物质剥夺的中介作用的假设，我们使用了 14 波德国面板数据。为了确定随时间变化的失业效应，我们依靠时间分布固定效应模型。我们的研究结果表明，失业对主观幸福感产生了强烈的负面影响，而且这种影响相当持续，对于那些有工作或没有工作伴侣的人来说，这种影响会随着时间的推移而得到缓冲。此外，我们的结果表明，物质剥夺和潜在剥夺都是解释伙伴关系特定的主观幸福感丧失轨迹的相关机制。