Study Berger (2013): study DE 1994
- Public
- Mothers, Germany, followed 15 years, 1994-2009
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP combined waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 5150
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Maternal employment
- Our Classification
-
-
- Remarks
- Reasons for not working assessed using questions on intentions to engage in paid employment and reasons for no doing that 32364 person/yesr observations
- Distribution
- 3:187%. 2a: 22%,, 2b:15%. 1: 7%, 0a: 22%, 0b:7%, 0c:9%
- Related specification variables
-
-
- Operationalization
- 3: full-time employed (reference)
2: part-time employed
a: on a long-term basis
b: on a short-term basis
1: unemployed
0: not in labourforce
a: for family reasons
b: for labour market reasons
c: no intention to work
Observed Relation with Happiness
- for family reasons b = -.10(05)
similar for:
- high/low income
- education levels
- earlier unmployment
stronger for:
- poor job opportunities
- for labourmarket reasons b = -.15(01)
- does not want b = -.02(ns)
similar for:
- education levels
stronger for:
- low income
reversed for:
- child below age 1
b-fix's controled for:
- total household income
b-fix's stronger when controled for residual income (household income minus mother's income)
All b's further controled for:
- age
- education
- family situation
- partnered
- age of children
- pregnant
- person needing care in household
- health
- disabled
- self rated
- self-employed (if employed)
- region
- municipality size
- year dummies