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 …

This paper employs social identity and self-categorization theories as a useful heuristic framework through which to …’s identity rather than reducing the instantaneous utility derived from day-to-day experiences. …

cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the … identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed’s feeling of identity is …

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an … individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results …