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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513025
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515336
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Labor market policies, unemployment, and identity : policies to help the unemployed can affect feelings of identity and well-being, so measures need to be evaluated carefully
Schöb, Ronnie - 2016
Unemployment not only causes material hardship but can also affect an individual's sense of identity (i.e. their …, workfare may not provide the intended incentives, and flexicurity (a system that combines a flexible labor market with active …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514680
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Labor market policies, unemployment, and identity : policies to help the unemployed can affect feelings of identity and well-being, so measures need to be evaluated carefully
Schöb, Ronnie - 2022
Unemployment not only causes material hardship but can also affect an individual's sense of identity (i.e. their …, measures that require some work or attendance for training from those receiving benefits (workfare) may not provide the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254443
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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015
In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well …-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280847
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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being
Hetschko, Clemens - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984507
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Non-employment, Ill-being and subjective well-being : (a review of literature on variables associated with subjective well-being)
Kapitány, Zsuzsa - 2009
Recent happiness studies by economists, sociologist and psychologists have produced many important new approaches and attitudes to focus less on objective variables and more on subjective well-being (SWB). Studies investigating life satisfaction (as a proxy of SWB) have identified strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919676
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Welfare while working : how does the life satisfaction approach help to explain job search behavior?
Wolf, Tobias - 2020
This paper examines the role of life satisfactioninthe labor market behavior of workers receiving welfare benefits while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265186
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Human well-being and in-work benefits : a randomized controlled trial
Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246020
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms …Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551530