Study Gash et al. (2010): study GB 1996
- Public
- Married women aged 20-59, United Kingdom, followed 10 years, 1996-2006,
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 22928
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Change in employment status
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- T1 = 1996, T2 = 2006.Excluded are women that leave the labor market.
- Distribution
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a: FT-FT 42,04 % = 9639
b FT-PT 3,04 % = 697
c PT-PT 28,51 % = 6537
d PT-FT 3,38 % = 775
e I N-IN 19,2 % = 4402
f IN-FT 0,85 % = 195
g IN-PT 2,97 % = 681 - Operationalization
- Change in employment status between T1 and T2
a Full-time to part-time (vs continuous full-time)
b part-time to full-time (vs continuous part-time)
c inactive to full-time( vs continuously inactive)
d inactive to part-time (vs continuously inactive)
Observed Relation with Happiness
T1 Full-time to T2 part-time
Negatively affected by Life satisfaction at T1
Negatively affected by job switch (Beta = +.09, ns)
Positively affected by change in number of
Children, got married,
CHANGE happiness measured controlling correlation with T2 happiness for T1 happiness.
Positively affected by age, change in health status and life satisfaction
Negatively affected by education and Life satisfaction at t0
Beta's controlled for:
- T1 Life satisfaction (indicating change
in happiness)
- age
- education
- income
- number of children at T1
- change in number of children
- health
- marriage
- change in occupational status
- Change in firm size (FT only)