Methodological Problems in the Measurement of Health Consequences of Unemployment in Sample Surveys

The author’s interest in work with this theme dates from years of empirical work on the relationship between job characteristics and their influence on the health of employees. Through secondary analysis it was tried to demonstrate or to reject a relationship (cp. B. HAMACHER, K. PREISER, 1977; N. GARRETT-BLEEK u.a., 1976; INFRATEST SOZIALFORSCHUNG and FORSCHUNGSGRUPPE ARBEIT UND GESUNDHEIT, 1979; R. MULLER u.a., 1979). Much too often this work has been overshadowed by irritations about the various kinds of methodological dilettantism in the analyses so far done.