关键词: 就业质量, 主观福利, 异质性, 工作价值观

Abstract: Realizing higher-quality employment is the focus of promoting employment during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and enhanced residents? subjective well-being is the key standard to judge the quality of employment. In this paper, subjective happiness, life satisfaction, sense of gain and depression degree are taken as the measurement indicators of subjective well-being, and data from China Labor Force Dynamic Survey in 2014 and 2016 are adopted. First, the subjective well-being effects of the overall and each dimension of employment quality are verified based on the mixed cross-sectional data. Then the ordered probit model, panel fixed-effects model, and instrumental variable method are used to test the robustness. Finally, the interaction item is introduced to investigate age heterogeneity and the moderating effects of work values. The results show that: firstly, the improvement of employment quality can effectively increase residents? subjective happiness, life satisfaction, sense of gain, and reduce the depression degree. There is a linear relationship between income level, social security, employment satisfaction and subjective well-being, and a non-linear relationship between working hours and subjective well-being. Secondly, the subjective well-being effect of employment quality has obvious age heterogeneity, and improving employment quality has a greater improvement effect on the older workers. Thirdly, when self-realization values are stronger, improving employment quality has a stronger effect on improving life satisfaction and sense of gain; when earning-bread values are stronger, improving employment quality has a weaker effect on reducing depression.

Key words: Employment Quality, Subject Well-being, Heterogeneity, Work Values