Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …

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 …

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 …

income. The model is estimated using a large German panel data set.<P>This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the …

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …