Unemployment and Subjective Well-Being

Suppa, Nicolai

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_196-1

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“…However, we do not want to overinterpret these findings, as the increases are never statistically significant. Furthermore, there could be time-variant selection in and out of unemployment for those who suffer most from unemployment (i.e., those whose latent functions deteriorate the most in the initial phase of unemployment, see, Suppa, 2021 ). Additionally, the status may especially be prone to endogeneity in the sense that the meaning of the status measures shifts if unemployed individuals over time replace employed with unemployed social contacts in their social network (also, see text footnote 7).…”

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Heterogeneities in the latent functions of employment: New findings from a large-scale German survey

2022

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Building on social psychologist Marie Jahoda’s pioneering work, the psychological literature has shown that work fulfills both manifest functions (e.g., monetary returns) and latent functions (e.g., social contact). This article uses data from the German panel study “Labor market and social security” (PASS), which contains information on latent and manifest factors (from a shortened latent and manifest benefits, or LaMB, scale), as well as a large array of other variables for over 9,000 respondents. This probability-sampled data allowed for detailed analyses that have not been previously possible. We investigate differences in these factors by labor market status, among those employed, and among those unemployed. We identify considerable variation between status groups, suggesting that employment, overall, is important and that longer periods of unemployment lead to a gradual decay of the latent and manifest factors. Furthermore, regression analyses show that the LaMB measures account for approximately 70% of the partial correlations between unemployment and various well-being measures.

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Heterogeneities in the latent functions of employment: New findings from a large-scale German survey

2022

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“…We offer a battery of sensitivity checks. First, using specification curve analyses (Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015, 2020, we check whether our results are robust to using different sub-samples and modifications of Equation ( 2). The main logic of the specification curve analyses is to re-estimate Equation (2) with alternative control variables (e.g., including and excluding the ICT control, including and excluding demographic variables, education, and job controls), estimating the equation using OLS or an IV, and excluding one country at a time from the analysis sample.…”

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confidence: 99%