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how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. In stage one, we model housework time to identify … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …
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-being, they overwhelmingly focus on life satisfaction as the cognitive dimension of well-being. Little is known about the … rapidly as compared to life satisfaction. Contrary to existing studies, we find decreases in emotional well-being but not in … life satisfaction in anticipation of unemployment. …
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We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
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We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household … longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction over time depends on LOC. LOC indicates … internal LOC is associated with higher marital satisfaction and that own LOC matters more for marital satisfaction than spouse …
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Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive turnover of doctors and nurses can reduce the quality and quantity of services to patients. In the public sector, where salaries are often not negotiable at individual level, workers...
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first study that explores the employee satisfaction with salary raises relative to perceptions of other employees …' satisfaction with salary raises, and intended labor supply in an American university. …
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Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...
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Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain in 2004 and 2011 we find school staff are more satisfied and more contented with their jobs than "like" employees in other workplaces. The differentials are largely accounted for by the occupations school employees...
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major positive role in business performance. There is, however, a need for further evidence on what determines satisfaction … at the workplace and how it can be promoted. In other words, do managers have access to specific satisfaction … practices? Furthermore, is employee commitment totally explained by satisfaction, or do further factors promote it? This paper …
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. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …
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