Subsidized Employment and Life Satisfaction

关于生活满意度的研究表明，劳动力市场政策对福祉和行为的影响超出了对收入和休闲的影响。该项目分析了补贴就业的非货币影响。它将衡量非自愿失业造成的福利损失的方法与现代经验性劳动力市场研究方法相结合，以评估补贴就业。利用德国劳动力市场和社会保障小组的数据，分析了向雇员支付的工资补贴（ergänzendes Arbeitslosengeld II）对主观幸福感的影响。该研究项目主要侧重于与失业和领取福利以及没有领取在职福利的就业相比，作为就业福利领取者的福祉影响。该项目的第一部分调查补贴就业与失业相比在多大程度上提高了生活满意度，如果将其视为等同于非补贴就业，以及这些影响如何随时间变化。第2部分使用与行政数据相结合的调查数据（PASS-ADIAB），研究工资补贴的影响是否取决于人口统计学和个人就业经历。第3部分通过观察接受在职福利对实际行为的影响来验证效用效应。使用SOEP数据，第4部分分析了补贴就业的影响在多大程度上源于情感幸福，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.