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-financial incentives of entrepreneurs. While financial success is the most important determinant of start-up satisfaction, achievement of … entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start-up—not because their start-up fails to deliver financial returns, but …We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their …
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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 job security. Findings from our generalized ordered logit regressions …
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In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...
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a model in which HRM decisions affect employees' self-images and thereby their motivation. We show that in the absence …
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Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same … substantial for many individuals and that it varies strongly with personal characteristics such as age and gender.Women suffer …
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satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power with respect to the collective choice …
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This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
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In this paper we investigate the mediating role of psychosocial benefits in the customer satisfaction …/dissatisfaction formation process. Most research on this subject deals with the causality direction of psychosocial benefits and satisfaction … psychosocial benefits within a customer satisfaction framework. Knowledge of which functional benefit can control which …
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We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors … incentives to sign insurance contracts stem from a UI-embedded, government-subsidized early retirement (ER) program, giving … benefits that are unrelated to business risk. Indeed, we argue that the self-employed's incentives to insure themselves stem …
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