Subsidized Employment and Life Satisfaction

对生活满意度的研究表明，劳动力市场政策对幸福感和行为的影响超出了对收入和休闲的影响。本项目分析了就业补贴的非货币效应。它将衡量非自愿失业造成的福祉损失的已知方法与实证劳动力市场研究的现代方法结合起来，以评估补贴就业。使用德国面板劳动力市场和社会保障（PASS）的数据，工资补贴支付给员工（ergänzendes Arbeitslosengeld II）对主观幸福感的影响进行了分析。本研究项目主要关注就业福利接受者相对于失业领取福利和就业不领取在职福利的幸福感效应。该项目的第一部分调查了与失业相比，有补贴的就业在多大程度上提高了生活满意度，如果它被认为与无补贴的就业相同，以及这些影响如何随着时间的推移而变化。第2部分使用与行政数据（PASS-ADIAB）相结合的调查数据，考察工资补贴的影响是否取决于人口统计数据和个人就业履历。第3部分通过查看接受在职福利对实际行为的影响，验证了发现的效用效应。第4部分使用SOEP数据，分析了就业补贴的影响在多大程度上源于情感幸福感、未来前景和社会认同的变化。

Research on life satisfaction indicates that labour market policy affects well-being and behaviour beyond its impact on income and leisure. This project analyses the non-monetary effects of subsidized employment. It combines the methodology known from measuring well-being losses from involuntary unemployment with modern methods of empirical labour market research to assess subsidized employment. Using German data of the Panel Labour Market and Social Security (PASS), the impact of a wage subsidy paid to employees (ergänzendes Arbeitslosengeld II) on subjective well-being is analysed. The research project mainly focuses on the well-being effect of being an employed welfare recipient compared to being unemployed and receiving welfare and being employed without receiving in-work benefits. The first part of the project investigates to what extent subsidized employment increases life satisfaction compared to unemployment, if it is considered equal to non-subsidized employment and how these effects change over time. Part 2 examines whether the effects of wage subsidies depend on demographics and individual employment biographies, using survey data that is combined with administrative data (PASS-ADIAB). Part 3 validates the utility effects found by looking at the impact of receiving in-work benefits on actual behaviour. Using SOEP data, part 4 analyses to what extent the impact of subsidized employment originates from changes in affective well-being, future prospects and social identity.