Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace

We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not.

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Year of publication:	2012-06
Authors:	Mumford, Karen A. ; Smith, Peter N.
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	workplace \| segregation \| job satisfaction \| earnings \| gender

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	forthcoming in: Manchester School, 2015, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/manc.12060"target="_blank">[Online First]</a> Number 6673 16 pages
Classification:	J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; J7 - Discrimination ; J28 - Safety; Accidents; Industrial Health; Job Satisfaction, Related Public Policy
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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