The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research announces the next regular seminar, which will be held in Moscow (Kochnovskiy Pr. 3, room 625) on May, 30, at 6 p.m. Tatiana Karabchuk (Deputy Director of the LCSR), Natalia Soboleva(junior research fellow at LCSR), and Marina Nikitina (research assistant at LCSR)  will deliver a report on "Subjective Well-Being of Atypically Employed".

The project tends to reveal the impact of countries’ difference in institutional background (Employment protection legislation) upon subjective well-being through atypical employment. In December 2012 at the LCSR workshop the authors presented research design, hypotheses and preliminary results from the analysis of two databases: European Value Study (2008) and European Social Survey (2010). It was shown that subjective well-being varies by the type of employment to some extent and that it is closely connected with the level of job satisfaction and work-life balance. Now we focus on European Social Survey (2010) and conducted multilevel regression analysis which demonstrates the impact of employment protection legislation on subjective well-being. According to the results, self-employment affects subjective well-being positively.  More specifically self-employed are more satisfied with their lives than those employed with low or medium job freedom and are relatively as happy as those employed with high job freedom. Temporary workers tend to be less happy and less satisfied with their life than those employed by permanent contracts. Part-time employment has significant effect only for women: females with less than 30 working hours per week are a bit happier than female full-timers.

Everyone interested is invited!

Working language is English.

Videoconference with St. Petersburg office of the LCSR (room 301, 47, Rimskogo-Korsakova prospect) will be provided. Also after the seminar a videotape will be put up after the summary of the presentation.

All the guests are asked to send e-mail to m.marinanikitina@gmail.com (in Moscow) or ekaterinaturanova@gmail.com  (in St. Petersburg) before noon in the day of the event