Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and SocietyVolume 58, Issue 3 p. 543-546 CorrigendumFree Access Corrigendum This article corrects the following: Socially Useless Jobs Robert Dur, Max Lent, Volume 58Issue 1Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society pages: 3-16 First Published online: December 2, 2018 First published: 20 June 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12233AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat 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 variation 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 correcting 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 socially useless jobs now no longer mirrors the business cycle. This is also confirmed by Revised Figure 5 below. Instead of a negative correlation between the output gap and the share of socially useless jobs reported in Dur and Van Lent (2019), there does not appear to be any relation in the corrected data. 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. Figure 5Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Output gap (horizontal axis) and the share of socially useless jobs (vertical axis) for available countries and waves. Lower values mean larger output gap. R2=0.002, coefficient: 0.001 (p=0.754) Data Sources: International Social Survey Program, Work Orientations Wave 2015 and the OECD Economic Outlook No. 102 - November 2017, “Output gap of the total economy” https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=EO#. [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com] Second, since the regression reported in Table 1 makes use of the data from all four waves, the correction of the coding errors also affects the coefficients in that table, but not in a very important way, see Revised Table 1. The biggest shift is in the coefficient for “Top manager”, which has become more sizeable and statistically significant. Some of the other coefficients also move, but to a smaller extent, rendering them marginally significant or no longer marginally significant. Figure 2, which plots the coefficients for the age and cohort dummies from the same regression, also slightly changes, see Revised Figure 2. In particular, the coefficients for the oldest age groups and for the oldest cohorts have become slightly smaller in size and are no longer significantly different from zero. Table 1. Who consider their job as socially useless? Dependent variable: Socially useless job Public sector -0.080*** (0.002) Top manager -0.043*** (0.012) Middle manager -0.009* (0.005) Years of education -0.0001 (0.0001) Female 0.008*** (0.002) Birth cohort and age group dummies Yes Country fixed effects Yes Observations 72,181 R2 0.035 OLS regression. Mean of dependent variable is: 0.095. Standard errors in parentheses. *p<0.1, **p<0.05, ***p<0.01. Figure 2Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Change in the proportion of workers who consider their job as socially useless implied by the coefficients of the birth cohort and age group dummies of the regression reported in Table 1 Notes: The dot depicts the coefficient and the line the 95% confidence interval of the coefficient estimated in the regression in Table 1. The reference categories are “Birthyear 1941-1960” and “Age 41-50”. [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com] Third and last, also Figure 4 – which relates the job protection index to the share of socially useless jobs – has slightly changed (see Revised Figure 4), but the main conclusion remains unaffected: there appears no relation between the two. Figure 4Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Job protection index (horizontal axis) and the share of socially useless jobs (vertical axis) for available countries and waves. R2=0.00, coefficient: 0.00 (p=0.963) Data sources: International Social Survey Program, Work Orientations Wave 2015 and the OECD Indicators of Employment Protection, “Strictness of employment protection — individual and collective dismissals (regular contracts)”, https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=EPL_OV. [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com] We thank Joanna Syrda for alerting us to these coding errors. We apologize for not having been more careful in processing the data. Reference Dur, Robert, and Max van Lent. 2019. “Socially Useless Jobs.” Industrial Relations 58(1): 3– 16. Volume58, Issue3July 2019Pages 543-546 FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation