| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Crost, B. |
| Title | Can Workfare Programs Offset The Negative Effect of Unemployment on Subjective Well-Being? |
| Source | Economics Letters, 2016, Vol. 140, 42 - 47 |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176515005169 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18-65 aged, general public, Germany, followed 12 years 1992-2004 |
| Working age individuals | |
| Collect period | 1992 |
| Last collect period | 2004 |
| Combined waves | |
| Survey name | DE-SOEP combined waves |
| Combined waves 1992-2004 | |
| Sample | Selection from general population sample |
| Weighting | N |
| Respondents N = | 6442 |
| 6442 individuals, 648067 observations, | |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: Taking all things together, how satisfied are you with your life these days? Please answer with the help of this scale. For instance, when you are totally satisfied with your life, please tick '10'. When you are totally unsatisfied with your life, please tick '0'. You may use all values in between to indicate that you are neither totally satisfied nor totally unsatisfied." 10 totally satisfied 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 totally unsatisfied |
| Classification | O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d |
| Author's label | Happiness |
| Page in publication | 43,44 |
| Remarks | Within individuals: s.d.= 1,18 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 6.84 | 6.84 |
| Standard deviation | 1.73 | 1.73 |
| Author's label | Our subject description | |
| Workfare | show | Earlier workfare |