Die PASS-Panelbefragung nach sechs Wellen

The aim of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) is to provide a database which allows analysing the dynamics of welfare benefits receipt after the introduction of the Unemployment Benefits II in Germany in 2005. This entails the take up and ending of benefits receipt as well as the social situation of households and individuals receiving benefits, their subjective ways of coping with the situation and the contact to institutions providing the basic income support. PASS is set up as a household panel study with a sample of approx. 10,000 households interviewed in each wave. In addition to household interviews with the heads of the households about 15,000 interviews with individual household members aged 15 and older are carried out. This article provides an overview of the first six waves of PASS. It focuses on the survey's main goals, the questionnaire, the sampling and study design, the number of interviews, data access and methodological research on PASS. The article closes by describing the outlook for future developments

Housing tenure, housing wealth and subjective wellbeing in Australia: The case of unemployment

Item does not contain fulltextLike in many other western countries, the Australian welfare state is under pressure. The growing reliance on private insurance by means of accumulated wealth leads to a more prominent role for housing tenure and housing wealth, which is the most important source of wealth for most Australian households. The literature shows that unemployment leads to direct income losses and increased feelings of insecurity. Homeownership - as a stable basis for the private self, - and family and housing wealth - as a possible income-maintenance source, - have the potential to reinforce feelings of security and to supplement income. We research this issue with the Australian HILDA panel, waves 1-14 (2001-2015) and use panel fixed-effects analysis. Through following persons over time and researching their changes in subjective wellbeing when experiencing or not experiencing unemployment we can see whether housing tenure and housing wealth provide a potential buffer. We find that the negative effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing is stronger for tenants than for homeowners. We do not find consistent effects for housing wealth as a buffer mitigating the negative life event of unemployment