Study Sohier (2019): study ZZ EU 9 2006
- Public
- 50-70 aged adults, 9 nations, followed 7 years, 2006-2013
- Survey name
- SHARE
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 16667
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI)
face-to-face and computer-aided personal interview
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Involuntary employed
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- T1: 2006-2007, T2: 2011, T3: 2013
- Distribution
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Only older workers (N = 28662, weighted data)
N=1:13758, 0:14904 - Operationalization
- Selfreport on single question: Thinking about your present job, would you like to retire as early as you can from this job?
1. yes: involuntary employed
0. no: voluntary employed
Observed Relation with Happiness
- Involuntary employed M = 8.13
- Voluntary employed M = 8.35
- Difference -.22
Only for older workers
b-fix weighted by country population, controlled for
- age square
- workig conditions index
- selfperceived health, no. of daily limitation
- income difficult, net household income
- partner's health
- survey time
Similar result when excluding working condition or health or income
Results were similar when additionally controlled for the internaction of employment and
- working condition index
- health (a slighlty stronger effect)
- income