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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …
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Where to go? Workers' Reasons to quit and Intra- versus Interindustry Job Mobility
Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256165
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency; The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch … properties of vignette equivalence and response consistency. In our data set both job satisfaction and vignettes are numerically … evaluated on a 0-10-scale. This fact allows us to interpret the evaluations as cardinal satisfaction values and to estimate …
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Overreporting vs. Overreacting: Commuters' Perceptions of Travel Times
Peer, Stefanie; Knockaert, Jasper; Koster, Paul; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We asked participants of a large-scale, real-life peak avoidance experiment to provide estimates of their average in-vehicle travel time for their morning commute. Comparing these reported travel times to the corresponding actual travel times, we find that travel times are overstated by a factor...
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The Anatomy of Job Satisfaction and the Role of Contingent Employment Contracts
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Instituut - 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 aspect satisfactions are subsequently explained from observed characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256221
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The Impact of Workplace Conditions on Firm Performance
Buhai, Sebastian; Cottini, Elena; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper estimates the impact of work environment health and safety practice on firm performance, and examines which firm-characteristic factors are associated with good work conditions. We use Danish longitudinal register matched employer-employee data, merged with firm business accounts and...
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How important is Methodology for the Estimates of the Determinants of Happiness?
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Frijters, Paul - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret answers to happiness surveys as cardinal and comparableacross respondents (Kahneman et al. 1999). As a result, these social scientists run OLS regressionson happiness and changes in happiness. Economists, on the other hand, usually only assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256698
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The Anatomy of Subjective Well-being
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Frijters, P.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Optimal Incentive Contracts when Workers envy their Boss
Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
A worker's utility may increase with his income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income. This article uses a principal-agent model to study profit-maximizing contracts when a worker envies his employer. Envy tightens the worker's participation constraint and so calls...
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Paid to quit
Dur, Robert; Schmittdiel, Heiner - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
Inspired by a recent observation about an online retail company, this paper explains why a firm may find it optimal to offer an exit bonus to recent hires so as to induce self-selection. We study a double adverse selection problem, in which the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment...
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