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Job Satisfaction and the Labor Market Institutions in Urban China
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, W. Stanley; Wei, Xiangdong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
. Legally segregated migrants, floaters, earn significantly less than otherwise equivalent non-migrants but routinely report … but find that it exists only for non-migrants suggesting a club good aspect to membership. In contrast to earlier studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030882
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Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?
Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884199
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Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers: Evidence from an Inland City
Wang, Huashu; Pan, Lei; Heerink, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes … migrants are changing as a result of government policies and the global financial crisis. More migrants than before find jobs … of the new generation of migrants, defined as those born in the 1980s and 1990s, as compared to the traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659257
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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that offshoring involves job destruction, especially...
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Temporary Contracts and Young Workers' Job Satisfaction in Italy
Bruno, Giovanni S. F.; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The Italian process of flexibilization of the labour market has created a dual market populated by protected permanent employees and unprotected temporary workers. The latter comprises not only temporary employment relationships but also autonomous collaborations used by firms as low-cost de...
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Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Danzer, Natalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884142
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How Does Temporary Agency Work Impact German Agency Workers?
Spermann, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
enriched by practical experience gathered at Randstad, Germany’s leading staffing firm, and also provides a summary of recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884386
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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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Effect of Sexual Orientation on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Greece
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study investigates the differences in four aspects of job satisfaction between gay men/lesbians and heterosexuals. The analysis results suggest that gay men and lesbians are less satisfied with their jobs, by all job satisfaction measures, than heterosexual employees, all other factors...
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Happiness and Work
Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
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