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Do Job Disamenities Raise Wages or Ruin Job Satisfaction?

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This study investigates the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of individual wages and overall job satisfaction in the Finnish labour market. The potential influence of adverse working conditions on self-reported fairness of pay at the workplace is considered as an...

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Flextime as a determinant of sickness absence: A men to women and juniors to seniors comparison

Bouville, Gregor - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

The goal of this study is to analyze the previously unexplored gender and age specific relationship of flextime with absenteeism. This work is based on a French national survey on work organization and working conditions carried out on 25 000 employees. The approach taken is a quantitative...

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Job disamenities, job satisfaction, and on-the-job search: is there a nexus?

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This study explores the potential role of adverse working conditions at the workplace in the determination of on-the-job search in the Finnish labour market. The results reveal that workers currently facing adverse working conditions have greater intentions to switch jobs and they are also more...

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Some are Punished and Some are Rewarded: A Study of the Impact of Performance Pay on Job Satisfaction

McCausland, W.D.; Pouliakas, K.; Theodossiou, I. - EconWPA - 2005

Using an econometric procedure that corrects for both self-selection of individuals into their preferred compensation scheme and wage endogeneity, this study investigates whether significant differences exist in the job satisfaction of individuals receiving performance- related pay (PRP)...

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Socio-Economic Differences in the Perceived Quality of High and Low-Paid Jobs in Europe

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodossiou, Ioannis - EconWPA - 2005

This paper engages in a novel comparison of differences in the perceived quality of high and low-paid jobs across six European labour markets. Utilizing data from six waves (1996-2001) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), and after correcting for the selectivity problem that is...

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Geneses of labour market turnover: Job search and entrepreneurial aspirations on-the-job

Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two “search processes” side-by-side and report three main findings: First, neither entrepreneurial...

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Job satisfaction among US Ph.D. graduates: the effects of gender and employment sector

Moguerou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2002

In this paper we try to understand the determinants of job satisfaction. The population of US Ph.D. graduates provides a useful homogeneity - same level of education - and an interesting heterogeneity - different career outcomes, academics vs. non academics. Empirically we use the Survey of...

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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

jobs. In this setting, financial development favors a better matching between individual motivation and occupation, thereby …

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Ce qui engendre la corruption : une analyse microéconomique sur données africaines

Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

-Saharan Africa, an area of the world where corruption is widespread. This paper empirical basis is a rich collection of comparable … results about the exposure to corruption and the use of public services as well. Our findings notably show that ethnic and … religious belongings, which are traditionally put forward in the literature about corruption in this continent, do not have a so …

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Multiples dimensions de la pauvreté, gouvernance et démocratie : le point de vue de la population malienne Enquête ELIM2006, Premiers résultats

Kuépié, Mathias; Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Sougane, Arouna - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

Public statistics face quite a challenge when it comes to measuring new dimensions of development (institutions, governance and social and political participation). Based on the experience acquired by the 123 survey in Bamako in 2001, the Malian National Statistics Office has appended three...

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