The German Job Search Panel 2.0: The Pandemic Cohort

Abstract

"The German Job Search Panel (GJSP) comprises survey data from workers who registered as jobseekers expecting the Termination of their jobs. The data include an exceptionally broad range of measures of health and well-being, among other information. A first cohort was invited to participate between November 2017 and May 2019 (Hetschko et al., 2022). In 2020, the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic drastically changed the macroeconomic environment of the German labor market and, in the process, the challenges associated with job search. We therefore decided to sample a second cohort of initially employed jobseekers from July 2020 to February 2021 (GJSP 2.0). Combining the two GJSP cohorts allows Researchers to examine if and how the pandemic altered the experience of job search. This data report describes the pandemic cohort of the GJSP, changes to sampling, recruitment and questionnaires compared to the first cohort and documents determinants of participation and panel attrition." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schmidtke, J., Hetschko, C., Eid, M., Lawes, M., Schöb, R. & Stephan, G. (2023): The German Job Search Panel 2.0: The Pandemic Cohort. (OSF preprints), Charlottesville, VA, 23 p. DOI:10.31219/osf.io/szjrx