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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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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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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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Employee Portals

Bauer, Hans H.; Hammerschmidt, Maik; Hallbauer, Axel - EconWPA - 2004

Mit dem Einsatz von Employee Portalen verfolgen Unternehmen das Ziel, eine leistungsfaehige Technologie zur Schaffung von sog. personalisierten Arbeitsplaetzen am Desktop eines jeden Mitarbeiters bereitzustellen. Das Portal versorgt als Front-end des virtuellen Arbeitsplatzes den Mitarbeiter mit...

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Latvia: Working Too Hard?

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime, unsocial working hours, health and safety at work, social...

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Workplace location and travel effects from teleworking

Lim, H.N. - EconWPA - 2002

Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...

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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …

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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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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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