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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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correcting for the selectivity problem that is prevalent in the study of the effect of low pay status on job satisfaction, it is … satisfaction of high and low wage workers in the United Kingdom, France and Denmark. The empirical evidence therefore suggests that …
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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 alternative, indirect measure of job satisfaction. The results show that working …
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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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In this paper we try to understand the determinants of job satisfaction. The population of US Ph.D. graduates provides … themselves as less satisfied with their jobs than males. More generally, we find that job satisfaction is explained by different …
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scheme and wage endogeneity, this study investigates whether significant differences exist in the job satisfaction of … satisfaction of (very) high-paid workers only. A potential explanation for this pattern could be that for lower-paid employees PRP …
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We apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the concept of utility and then go on to a new model where individual’s behavior is aimed at reaching optimal level of arousal of neural system and optimal level of domination in social ranking.
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Given the importance of green entrepreneurs in the transition towards a truly sustainable society, this paper proposes frameworks for investigating the motives of entrepreneurs who set up green businesses. Different perceptions of 'green' are explored and although the paper focuses particularly...
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motivated? A standard result in economics is that firms offer autonomous jobs to promote worker motivation. But surprisingly … motivates them. Does autonomy in fact trigger motivation? I argue in this study that motivation may trigger autonomy, and thus … motivation, and that motivated workers have a lower cost of processing information than unmotivated ones. While motivated workers …
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