The subjective well-being of workfare participants: Insights from a Day Reconstruction Survey

Ronnie Schöb, Andreas Knabe and Joachim Weimann
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VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: In this paper, 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.

JEL-codes: D60 I31 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Journal Article: The subjective well-being of workfare participants: insights from a day reconstruction survey (2017)
Working Paper: The Subjective Well-Being of Workfare Participants: Insights from a Day Reconstruction Survey (2015)
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