Corrigendum

• Published date: 01 July 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12233
• Date: 01 July 2019

Corrigendum

In Dur and van Lent (2019), the following errors were published on pages 3-16.

Joanna Syrda (University of Bath) has pointed us to two errors in our Stata

code. First, we overlooked a difference in the way nonresponses are coded

across waves in the original dataset, and as a result erroneously replaced the

nonresponses to the statement “My job is useful to society”by agreement with

the statement for the 1989 and the 2005 waves. Second, for the 1989 wave,

we used incorrect codes for “Top manager”and “Middle manager”. These two

errors affect some of the results we reported in Dur and Van Lent (2019), but

fortunately not all of them. In particular, all results that make use of the 2015-

wave only are not affected. This includes the key numbers mentioned in the

Abstract, Introduction, and Concluding Remarks, as well as Figures 1 and 3,

Tables 2, 3, and 4, and Tables S2, S3, and S4. These are all correct. In the

remainder of this Corrigendum, we describe the ways in which the coding

errors do affect our results.

First, the remark we made about the variation over time in the share of

socially useless jobs on page 5 must change. We wrote: “There is some varia-

tion over time in the share of socially useless jobs, but no clear time trend: it

moves from 6 percent in 1989, to 10 percent in 1997, back to 6 percent in

2005.”The correct numbers for 1989 and 2005 are 12 percent and 10 percent,

respectively. Also Table S1 –which looks at the pattern over time after cor-

recting for the fact that countries included in the sample vary from wave to

wave –changes, see Revised Table S1 below. However, the conclusion that

there is no clear time trend still holds. The pattern over time in the share of

TABLE S1

THE FRACTION OF WORKERS WHO CONSIDER THEIR JOB AS SOCIALLY USELESS OVER TIME

Dependent variable: Socially useless job

Year: 1989 reference

Year: 1997 -0.001

(0.005)

Year: 2005 0.002

(0.004)

Year: 2015 -0.017

***

(0.005)

Country fixed effects Yes

Observations 79.346

R2 0.02

Standard errors in parentheses *p<0.1, **p<0.05, ***p<0.01.

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