I am skeptical of these findings. The graph comes from LSE's center for economic performance (http://cep.lse.ac.uk/ http://cep.lse.ac.uk/), but I cannot find a

I am skeptical of these findings. The graph comes from LSE's center for economic performance (http://cep.lse.ac.uk/ http://cep.lse.ac.uk/), but I cannot find any reference for a related study when searching google. I also find that it would be very difficult to summarize 4000 research papers into a clean graph about subjective life satisfaction in such a way that you could cleanly compare post divorce well-being and post unemployment well-being. Given, it's VERY hard to find the root study, and most other peer websites are just referencing the Bloomberg article. My guess is the author of the article is conflating some data. A few interesting references: https://whatworkswellbeing.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/unemployment-reemployment-wellbeing-briefing-march-2017-v3.pdf https://whatworkswellbeing.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/unemp... References: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/926/1/02-16.pdf http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/926/1/02-16.pdf To conclude: "Using a longitudinal study of 24,000 people living in Germany, this study found on average that individuals had lower life satisfaction following unemployment and this never recovered to the pre-unemployment levels. These results held for men and women but were stronger for men." The authors of this study frame their results slightly differently: "The findings suggests that even a short period of unemployment can cause an alteration in a person’s long-term set-point. Although there was substantial stability in life satisfaction over the years, unemployment did influence long-term levels, thus suggesting that in addition to personality, long-term subjective well-being can also be influenced by life circumstances"