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employees' job satisfaction is reduced. However, the relationship between outsourcing and employee well-being is not entirely … negative. Our evidence also shows that offshoring to high-wage countries stimulates the vertical mobility of employees in …
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employees and unprotected temporary workers. The latter comprises not only temporary employment relationships but also … cause of lower satisfaction for both temporary employees and autonomous collaborators. But while temporary employees … employees, autonomous collaborators do not and are thus significantly the least satisfied. …
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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...
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Promotions ordinarily involve higher wages and greater privileges; but they also often involve increased responsibility, accountability and work hours. Therefore, whether promotions are good for workers' wellbeing is an empirical question. Using high-quality panel data we estimate pre- and...
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The enormous speed of change in the working world is associated with greater job insecurity. As a dynamic external flexibilization instrument, temporary agency work is characterized by high labor turnover rates. As a result, agency workers might perceive more job insecurity than permanent staff....
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affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss …
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measures, than heterosexual employees, all other factors being held constant. Gay men and lesbians who have disclosed their … the same negative impact on employees' job satisfaction regardless of sexual orientation. Furthermore, gay men and … lesbians receive lower wages than comparable heterosexual employees. Whilst, the wage gap due to sexual orientation is greater …
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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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This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...
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), namely flexi-time, telehomework, and part-time work, on employees' satisfaction with the fit between working time and private … life and their overall job satisfaction. TLF arrangements provide employees with more control over their working life and … female employees and between employees with and without children. Temporal and locational flexibility apparently appeals not …
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