Means-Tested Welfare Benefits and Subjective Well-Being Through Time: Does Clients' Life Satisfaction Recover?

Nivorozhkin A, Promberger M (2024)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2024

Journal

Social Policy & Administration Wiley-Blackwell: No OnlineOpen

DOI: 10.1111/spol.13078

Abstract

We study the process of subjective well-being adaptation to receiving welfare benefits. Using 15 waves of the German Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security and fixed-effects regression models, we find that welfare benefit receipt decreases life satisfaction. Furthermore, on average, the results speak against the hypothesis of adaptation to receiving the benefit; the subjective well-being of welfare benefit receipt starts poor and stays poor. On average, the life satisfaction of women with small children does not decrease upon receipt of welfare benefits.

Authors with CRIS profile

Markus Promberger Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie

Involved external institutions

Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Nivorozhkin, A., & Promberger, M. (2024). Means-Tested Welfare Benefits and Subjective Well-Being Through Time: Does Clients' Life Satisfaction Recover? Social Policy & Administration. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13078

MLA:

Nivorozhkin, Anton, and Markus Promberger. "Means-Tested Welfare Benefits and Subjective Well-Being Through Time: Does Clients' Life Satisfaction Recover?" Social Policy & Administration (2024).

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