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Experienced Well-being and Labor Market Status : The Role of Pleasure and Meaning

Tobias WolfMaria MetzingRichard E. Lucas

出版	German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin, 2019
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XROqzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This paper examines experienced well-being of employed and unemployed workers. We use the survey-adapted day reconstruction method (DRM) of the Innovation Sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP-IS) to analyze the role of the employment status for well-being, incorporating complete time use. Summarizing the average share of pleasurable minutes, we generate the P-index. We show that - in contrast to evaluative life satisfaction - the average unemployed experiences more pleasurable minutes due to the absence of working episodes. Hence, we examine working episodes in depth. While working is among the activities with the highest propensities for an unpleasant experience, it is also among the most meaningful activities. We show that meaning is a central non-monetary determinant for a pleasurable work episode and find that pleasure during work and job satisfaction in general have the same association with meaning.