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This paper considers the job satisfaction of academics using a detailed dataset of over two thousand academics from ten … measure of job-satisfaction. Academics appear to be considering three separate sets of elements of their jobs, namely the … elements of job satisfaction on their intentions to leave the sector. …
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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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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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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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This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...
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trading turnover as a measure of liquidity and the 1976-1993 Tokyo Stock Exchange data, I find that, cross-sectionally, stocks … with higher turnover tend to have a lower expected return. This evidence is consistent with predictions derived from an … Amihud-Mendelson type of transaction cost model in which the turnover measures investors’ trading frequency. The trading …
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Labor contracts that result in dismissals are quite common in the real world. The question that arises is why employers do not just offer reduced wages instead of asking workers with low realized productivity to leave. This paper argues that such behavior can be explained by workers'...
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