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Praag, B.M.S. van; Frijters, P.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the...

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The Anatomy of Job Satisfaction and the Role of Contingent Employment Contracts

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

In this paper I analyse job satisfaction using fixed effect analysis and a multiple equation model. Overall job satisfaction is analysed as an aggregate of satisfaction with several job aspects. I find that overall job satisfaction is mainly determined by satisfaction with job content. All...

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The Effect of Job Satisfaction on Job Search: Not just whether, but also where

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Using survey data of public sector employees in the Netherlands, this paper shows that workers' satisfaction with various job domains not only affects whether but also where workers search for another job. An intuitive pattern emerges. Workers try to leave their current employer when their job...

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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees

Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...

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ICT and Substitution between Out-of-home and At-home Work; the Importance of Timing

Graaff, Thomas de; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s, focusing on the presence of ICT technologies in households -in particular modem possession. To investigate these determinants, a sequential hurdle model is estimated where people...

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Teleworking and Congestion: A Dynamic Bottleneck Analysis

Gubins, Sergejs; Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We analyze the welfare effects of part-day teleworking on road traffic congestion in the context of Vickrey's dynamic … bottleneck model. Endogenous decisions to become equipped with a teleworking-enabling technology change the scheduling of arrival … even costless teleworking might be marginally welfare reducing, after reaching the optimal penetration level, as an …

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On Hierarchies and Communication

Brink, René van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

which they usually take different positions. Two examples of such structures are communication networks and hierarchies. In … feasible sets in communication networks and compare them with feasible sets arising from hierarchies. …

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On Committees of Experts

Visser, Bauke; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

A committee makes a decision on a project on behalf of "the public." Members of the committee agree on the a priori value of the project, and hold additional private information about its consequences. They are experts who care about the value of the project and about being considered well...

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Sharing Information through Delegation and Collaboration

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute

This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and … explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two …

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