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Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impacton Education in Africa

Bourdon, Jean; Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - HAL - 2007

Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, manycountries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term) contracts...

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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

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Job Satisfaction and Quits

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude; Simonnet, … - HAL - 2007

We test the wealth maximization theory of quitting behavior on the German Socioeconomic Panel (1985-2003). With the interpretation of job satisfaction as an expression of the experienced preference for the present job against available alternatives, the propensity to stay in the present job is...

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Reported job satisfaction : What does it mean?

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - HAL - 2004

We emphasize the major influences of experienced utility gaps or regret, i.e. the difference between what happened and what might have happened, on job satisfaction. The main prediction that we test is that job satisfaction correlates with the wage gaps experienced in the past and present,...

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Financial development, entrepreneurship and job satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2008

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and the employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non- monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738704

Work, jobs and well-being across the Millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Job satisfaction and co-worker wages: Status or signal?

Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - HAL - 2007

This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...

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Wage Comparisons in and out of the Firm. Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee French Database

Godechot, Olivier; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2013

This paper looks at the association between wage satisfaction and different notions of reference wage, based on a matched employer-employee dataset. It shows that workers' satisfaction depends on otherpeople's income in different ways. Relative income concerns are important, but we also find...

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THE EVOLUTION OF HEALTHCARE MANAGERS' ROLE: A COMPARISON FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM

Randon, Sophie - HAL - 2012

staff retention. In France, the lasts hospital reforms are changing the healthcare managers' role which have an important … managers' role. This study shows that the evolution of healthcare managers' role can be dangerous toward their relation with … the staff and suggests some feature research on the influence of nurse managers' backgrounds on the style of leadership …

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Politiques énergétiques et accès aux services urbains en réseau à Istanbul : une ambition métropolitaine au détriment de l'intérêt général

Arik, Elvan - HAL - 2011

À partir de la thématique énergétique à Istanbul, ce mémoire apporte des éléments de réponse à la double interrogation suivante : comment les structures de gouvernance locale se sont-elles adaptées aux injonctions du développement urbain durable ? ; dans une métropole déjà...

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