The subjective well-being of workfare participants: insights from a day reconstruction survey

Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb and Joachim Weimann
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Ronnie Schoeb

Applied Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 13, 1311-1325

Abstract: In this article, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being – life satisfaction and emotional well-being – separately to obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective well-being of workfare participants. Our results show that the life satisfaction of people in this group is between that of employed and unemployed people. In contrast, their emotional well-being is the highest of these three groups.

Date: 2017
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Working Paper: The subjective well-being of workfare participants: Insights from a Day Reconstruction Survey (2016)
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1217309

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