Job Satisfaction Through the Lens of Social Media: Rural--Urban Patterns in the U.S
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| author | Iacus, Stefano M Porro, Giuseppe |
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| contents | We analyze a novel large-scale social-media-based measure of U.S. job satisfaction, constructed by applying a fine-tuned large language model to 2.6 billion georeferenced tweets, and link it to county-level labor market conditions (2013-2023). Logistic regressions show that rural counties consistently report lower job satisfaction sentiment than urban ones, but this gap decreases under tight labor markets. In contrast to widening rural-urban income disparities, perceived job quality converges when unemployment is low, suggesting that labor market slack, not income alone, drives spatial inequality in subjective work-related well-being. |
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| spellingShingle | Job Satisfaction Through the Lens of Social Media: Rural--Urban Patterns in the U.S Iacus, Stefano M Porro, Giuseppe General Economics Economics Computers and Society Social and Information Networks Applications We analyze a novel large-scale social-media-based measure of U.S. job satisfaction, constructed by applying a fine-tuned large language model to 2.6 billion georeferenced tweets, and link it to county-level labor market conditions (2013-2023). Logistic regressions show that rural counties consistently report lower job satisfaction sentiment than urban ones, but this gap decreases under tight labor markets. In contrast to widening rural-urban income disparities, perceived job quality converges when unemployment is low, suggesting that labor market slack, not income alone, drives spatial inequality in subjective work-related well-being. |
| title | Job Satisfaction Through the Lens of Social Media: Rural--Urban Patterns in the U.S |
| topic | General Economics Economics Computers and Society Social and Information Networks Applications |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05144 |