The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on different facets of the well-being of employed and unemployed workers - an interdisciplinary study based on real-time data

Covid-19 大流行对就业和失业工人福祉不同方面的影响——基于实时数据的跨学科研究

• 批准号: 327867807
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Michael Eid
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/327867807?language=en
• 关键词: impact; Covid; 19; pandemic; different

Since 2017, Freie Universität Berlin and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) have conducted a longitudinal study investigating the effects of unemployment on various indicators of well-being (subjective, psychological, physical). The project has been funded by the DFG. Rich monthly panel data of the same workers have been collected using a survey app. Thanks to an innovative control group design, the data facilitate examining the effects of unemployment on different well-being facets comprehensively. Moreover, the level of cortisol in people’s hair is ascertained to compare the subjective survey data with an objectively measured biomarker of habitual stress. This application for an extension of the project funding pursues three goals: First, we want to answer those research questions outlined in the initial funding proposal that could not be addressed yet due to an unanticipated delay in recruiting participants for the survey. Second, we aim to study how the macroeconomic environment influences the effect of unemployment on well-being. So far, we have recruited participants and observed entries into unemployment during a boom. This has changed dramatically in the meantime. From a theoretical perspective, increased uncertainty about future employment prospects due to the corona crisis may lead to more negative effects of unemployment on well-being than before. However, the opposite effect is also conceivable as unemployment might be less stigmatizing when it is highly prevalent. To investigate which of these two effects dominates, we have recruited a new study cohort of jobseekers since July 2020. It will enable us to compare the well-being effects of unemployment before and after the corona crisis. Third, we want to analyze how the Covid-19 pandemic affects the well-being and stress of employed subjects from the initial study cohort who still participate. Our longitudinally collected data offer the unique opportunity of comparing various innovative measures of the same people’s well-being before and after the crisis (e.g. hair cortisol, experience sampling). Other surveys do not facilitate these analyses as they either started after the outbreak of the pandemic or do not include similarly sophisticated assessment methods. Thus, we can comprehensively investigate the effects of the corona crisis on various well-being facets while also considering potential moderator variables (e.g., job security, coping strategies).

自2017年以来，自由大学柏林和就业研究所（IAB）进行了一项纵向研究，调查失业对各种幸福指标（主观，心理，身体）的影响。该项目由DFG资助。我们使用调查应用程序收集了相同工人的丰富月度面板数据。由于采用了创新的对照组设计，数据有助于全面研究失业对不同福祉方面的影响。此外，确定人们头发中的皮质醇水平，以将主观调查数据与客观测量的习惯性压力生物标志物进行比较。本项目资助延期申请追求三个目标：首先，我们希望回答最初资助提案中概述的那些研究问题，这些问题由于招募调查参与者的意外延迟而无法解决。其次，我们的目标是研究宏观经济环境如何影响失业对福祉的影响。到目前为止，我们已经招募了参与者，并观察了繁荣时期的失业情况。与此同时，这种情况发生了巨大变化。从理论角度来看，由于电晕危机，未来就业前景的不确定性增加，可能导致失业对福祉的负面影响比以前更大。然而，相反的影响也是可以想象的，因为失业在高度普遍的情况下可能不那么令人感到耻辱。为了研究这两种效应中哪一种占主导地位，我们自2020年7月起招募了一个新的求职者研究队列。它将使我们能够比较电晕危机前后失业对福祉的影响。第三，我们希望分析新冠肺炎疫情如何影响来自初始研究队列的仍在参与的就业受试者的福祉和压力。我们纵向收集的数据提供了一个独特的机会，可以比较危机前后同一人群福祉的各种创新措施（例如头发皮质醇，经验采样）。其他调查不利于这些分析，因为这些调查要么是在大流行病爆发后开始的，要么不包括类似的复杂评估方法。因此，我们可以全面调查电晕危机对各种幸福方面的影响，同时考虑潜在的调节变量（例如，工作保障、应对策略）。