Study O'Connor (2020): study DE 1996
- Public
- Working aged, Germany, followed 17 years, 1996-2013
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP combined waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 233574
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Interview based on a set of pretested questionnaires
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Unemployment status
- Our Classification
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- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- 1 : Unemployed
0 : Employed
Observed Relation with Happiness
Beta controlled for:
- age
- month of interview
- lagged education
- lagged potential experience and its square
Smaller when additionally controled for:
- job expectations
- industry & occupatiion
- job satisfaction decline
- gender
- age
- month of interview
- lagged education
- lagged potential experience and its square
DOLS = -0.005 when additionally controlled for:
- log of adjusted family income
- self-reported health
- marital status
- parental status
- presence of a young child
- household unemployment
- poor health
Stronger among:
- Initially unemployed and students
- East Germans
Smaller among
- high incomes;
Similar across:
- genders
- social capital
Inconsistent across
- age groups
Reversed among
- very happy, more likely to remain unemployed
The relation is not driven by measurement error or omitted variables related to satisfaction-type questions.
b-fix (-.01) controlled for:
- age
- month of interview
- lagged education
- lagged potential experience and its square
b-fix = +0.008 when additionally controlled for:
- log of adjusted family income
- self-reported health
- marital status
- parental status
- presence of a young child
- household unemployment
- poor health
Stronger among:
- Initially unemployed and students
- East Germans
Smaller among
- high incomes;
Similar across:
- gender
- social capital
Inconsistent across
- age groups
Reversed among
- very happy, more likely to remain unemployed