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Happiness, life satisfaction and the role of work: Evidence from two Australian surveys
"... Abstract: This paper investigates factors that influence Australians ’ self-reported levels of happiness and life satisfaction with an emphasis on the role of labour market experience. The analysis is based on data from two surveys. The first, the 1995 Year 9 cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Au ..."
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Abstract: This paper investigates factors that influence Australians ’ self-reported levels of happiness and life satisfaction with an emphasis on the role of labour market experience. The analysis is based on data from two surveys. The first, the 1995 Year 9 cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), tracks a sample of young Australians in each year from Year 9 secondary school to age 19. The second is Wave 1 of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA). Ordered probit models are fitted to individuals’ ratings of how happy they are with their lives as a whole (LSAY) and their life satisfaction (HILDA). There is some evidence of declining levels of happiness with duration of unemployment. However, the results illustrate the importance the quality of working life, rather than just having a job, and some evidence on the influence of various job attributes on wellbeing is presented.
A r c h i v e o f S I D Gender Differences in Mental Health among Adult Population in Vojvodina, Serbia
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in Labour Economics The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey Special Issue: Case Studies in Labour Economics*
"... represents the most ambitious experiment in the social sciences in Australia. Over an indefinite time period, a large sample of Australians will be surveyed annually—and new respondents continually introduced to refresh the sample—on a broad range of labour market, education, income support and hous ..."
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represents the most ambitious experiment in the social sciences in Australia. Over an indefinite time period, a large sample of Australians will be surveyed annually—and new respondents continually introduced to refresh the sample—on a broad range of labour market, education, income support and household formation issues. (Details of the HILDA Survey are provided in the Appendix to this introduction.) HILDA’s size and the wide-ranging scope of questions means that the survey is at least as good, if not richer, as a data source than its international comparators, the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). However, it is still early days for the HILDA Survey and a continued significant financial commitment from the Australian Government and other funders is required so that the full benefits of the HILDA experiment are realised in future years.1 In this special issue of the AJLE, we bring together eight papers based for the most part on the first wave of the HILDA Survey.2 While longitudinal surveys are like good wines—growing in value (generally) with age––the
AUTHORS Title Low Paid Jobs and Unemployment: Churning
"... This article explores the links between low pay, unemployment and labour market churning over the period 2001 to 2006. The issue of churning is explored through analysis of the HILDA calendar data, in which job starts and job terminations are modelled using multinomial logit regressions. The results ..."
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This article explores the links between low pay, unemployment and labour market churning over the period 2001 to 2006. The issue of churning is explored through analysis of the HILDA calendar data, in which job starts and job terminations are modelled using multinomial logit regressions. The results are further explored using multilevel binomial logit models. Predicted probabilities of moving from job to job, from unemployment into jobs, and from jobs into unemployment, are calculated and these show that low paid, low skilled workers are highly vulnerable to labour market churning. Certain demographic groups, particularly migrants from particular regions, are also shown to be vulnerable. The results reinforce the importance of labour market policies which prioritise job continuity, skills development and earnings improvement rather than simply focusing on job attainment. 1.
