Publication type
Journal Article
Author
Publication date
June 1, 2008
Abstract:
This paper analyses the effect of participation in government training on subjective well-being. I use use Strandh's (2001) extension of Jahoda (1982) and Fryer's (1986) theories on the relationship between subjective well-being and labour market status as the theoretical framework. This extension suggests that participation in government training raises the subjective well-being of the unemployed and it furthermore predicts a long-term effect of previous participation on well-being. I analyse data from the first 13 waves of a longitudinal data, the British Household Panel Survey, using the Mundlak extended random effect model. I find that both current and previous participation in government training has positive effects on subjective well-being, although the effect of previous participation decreases over time.
Published in
European Sociological Review
Volume
Volume: 24 (4):451-462
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcn005
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Originally (Advance Access), Feb.2008
serial sequence - indexed article
#511001