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Alongside health, the employment situation can be regarded as an essential non-material dimension of well-being. Employment can contribute to social integration and the impact of involuntary unemployment on overall life satisfaction often goes far beyond what can be expected based on income loss alone. However, the description of an employment situation does not just involve the simple distinction between working and not working. The quality of the job is also of great importance for people’s well-being. We will examine these different aspects in this chapter.
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Here, we have defined and classified health in the same way as in Chap. 8: on the basis of general health and in four equal groups.
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These figures come from the Crossroads Bank for Social Security Data Warehouse on Labour Market and Social Protection and refer to the fourth quarter of 2014: https://dwh-live.bcss.fgov.be/nl/dwh/dwh_page/content/websites/datawarehouse/menu/webtoepassing-globale-cijfers.html.
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Here, we only took into account the respondents who stated a positive amount. Incidentally, when we try to allocate the income of the self-employed to individual family members for activities involving more than one family member, the average income drops considerably to 2117 euros and is only a little over 50 euros higher than that of employees.
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There is an increasing number of publications on stress at work and burnout, such as the Swinnen publication (2012), for example.
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Technically, we deducted 20 points for each point of difference between the respondent’s response for the characteristic of the current job and the corresponding degree of desirability of this characteristic in an ideal job from a basic score of 100 points for a particular job characteristic. For each dimension, we then averaged the resulting scores of the associated characteristics. A score of 100 therefore means that the characteristics of the current job correspond perfectly to the respondent’s vision of an ideal job. The lower the score, the less this is the case.
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Capéau, B. et al. (2020). Do We Find the Job of Our Dreams?. In: Well-being in Belgium. Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9_9
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