CESifo Working Paper Series: "The Subjective Well-Being of Workfare Participants"
New working paper by Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb and Joachim Weimann:
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In a new working paper, Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb and Joachim Weimann shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. Using data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany, two subdimensions of subjective well-being life satisfaction and emotional well-being are separately examined to obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. The results show that the life satisfaction of workfare participants is between that of employed and unemployed people. More surprisingly, perhaps, their emotional well-being is the highest of these three groups.
The working paper can be found here. |