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The German Job Search Panel

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  • Hetschko, Clemens
  • Eid, Michael
  • Lawes, Mario
  • Schöb, Ronnie
  • Stephan, Gesine

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This report introduces the German Job Search Panel, a longitudinal survey that follows people who register as job seeking over the course of up to two years. The focus of the survey is on job seekers’ well-being and health. An innovative survey app is used to allow for frequent measurement every month and for conducting the experience sampling method. The collected data may be linked to administrative records of the Federal Employment Agency, provided that people give their consent. A subsample of surveyed job seekers took part in hair sampling to measure their cortisol levels. In this report, we describe the sampling procedure, adjustments over the recruitment period and the collected data. We moreover examine selective participation in the panel. It turns out that high-skilled workers, young individuals and women were more likely to sign up. Age increases the probability to take part in the hair sampling. People working in East Germany were more likely to consent to the linkage of survey data and administrative records.

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  • Hetschko, Clemens & Eid, Michael & Lawes, Mario & Schöb, Ronnie & Stephan, Gesine, 2020. "The German Job Search Panel," OSF Preprints 7jazr, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:7jazr
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/7jazr
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