Study Lucas (2008): study XZ Germany West 1984
- Public
- Employed - unemployed - -re-employed, Germany, followed 15 years 1984-1998
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 3733
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Change in employment
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- All Ss were employed at baseline and were interviewed each year during 15 years
- Operationalization
- T1: employed
T2: unemployed
T3: re-employed
Observed Relation with Happiness
T1: before umemployment (average of all years 2 years before)
T2: during umemployment (the year before until year after)
T3: after re-employment (average of the years one year after re-employment)
- lower among males
- lower among unemployed longer than one year
- not lower among unemployed before study
- stronger among the initially most happy
- higher for average income
- lower for unemployed multiple times
- stronger among those who suffered most from earlier unemployment
- stronger among the initially most happy
DMa controled for:
- income
- initial income level
- change in income
- socio-demographic
- age
- gender
- employment history
- unemployed before the study
- lenght of unemployment during the study
- more than once unemployed during the study