Study Akee et al. (2018): study CN 2008
- Public
- 18 to 60 age, working age urban population, China, 2008
- Survey name
- CN-China General Social Survey
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 1486
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Fell unemployed in 2008
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Mostly fired because of new Labour Protection law which gave tenure to employees who worked at least 10 year for the same firm. For this reason many employers fired employees before that 10 year term. Excluded: self employed and agricultural workers
- Distribution
- N = 1:60, 0:1432
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- 1: Fired in 2008 not yet found a new job
0: Still employed in 2008
Observed Relation with Happiness
Still employed M = 3,89 SD = 0.85
- difference -0,27
- very unhappy +.09 (ns)
- unhappy +.21 (10)
- so-so +.14 (05)
- happy -.01 (ns)
- very happy -.70 (05)
Coefficients controled for:
- Gender
- Age
- Education
- Living situation
- married
- household size
- number of children below age 18
- house owner
- Social position in China
- hukou status
- party member
- Employment situation
- work in state owned enteroprise
- tenure
- cohort and year fixed effects
More negative among males (than females)
Strongly negative among educated, unrelated among low educated