{"ID":2834108,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05144","arxiv_id":"2512.05144","title":"Job Satisfaction Through the Lens of Social Media: Rural--Urban Patterns in the U.S","abstract":"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.","short_abstract":"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...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05144","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05144v1","authors":"[\"Stefano M Iacus\",\"Giuseppe Porro\"]","published":"2025-12-02T17:08:27Z","proceeding":"econ.GN","tasks":"[\"econ.GN\",\"cs.CY\",\"cs.SI\",\"stat.AP\"]","methods":"[\"Language Model\"]","has_code":false}