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How job changes affect people's lives — evidence from subjective well-being data

How job changes affect people's lives — evidence from subjective well-being data
How job changes affect people's lives — evidence from subjective well-being data

Starting a new job is able to boost people's careers, but might come at the expense of other areas of life. To investigate individual implications of job mobility, we analyse the effects of job changes on time-use and indicators of subjective well-being using rich data from a representative German panel survey. We find that job switchers report relatively high levels of life satisfaction, at least for the first time after the job change. There is no such ‘honeymoon’ period for job changes triggered by plant closures. Instead, we find evidence for a harmful impact of involuntary mobility on family life.

0007-1080
279-306
Chadi, Adrian
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Hetschko, Clemens
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Chadi, Adrian
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Hetschko, Clemens
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Chadi, Adrian and Hetschko, Clemens (2021) How job changes affect people's lives — evidence from subjective well-being data. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 59 (2), 279-306. (doi:10.1111/bjir.12536).

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Abstract

Starting a new job is able to boost people's careers, but might come at the expense of other areas of life. To investigate individual implications of job mobility, we analyse the effects of job changes on time-use and indicators of subjective well-being using rich data from a representative German panel survey. We find that job switchers report relatively high levels of life satisfaction, at least for the first time after the job change. There is no such ‘honeymoon’ period for job changes triggered by plant closures. Instead, we find evidence for a harmful impact of involuntary mobility on family life.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 April 2020
Published date: 1 June 2021
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors. British Journal of Industrial Relations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Local EPrints ID: 496180
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/496180
ISSN: 0007-1080
PURE UUID: e3e4fa19-072f-4f79-94d8-3a77caa77584
ORCID for Adrian Chadi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2008-0653

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Date deposited: 05 Dec 2024 18:00
Last modified: 06 Dec 2024 03:13

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Author: Adrian Chadi ORCID iD
Author: Clemens Hetschko

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