Switzerland has one of the highest employment rates of older individuals amongindustrialized countries. Nevertheless, in the past decade, Switzerland has experienced amarked trend toward early retirement. This study analyzes the motives of early retirement inSwitzerland in the 1990s...

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectional causality problems and (b)...

Die Fluktuationsrate in der Schweiz hat in den gesamten 90er Jahren – und damit sowohl inkonjunkturellen Boom- wie auch in konjunkturellen Rezessionsphasen – deutlich zugenommen.Diese Aussage gilt sowohl für alle Kategorien von Wechselgründen wie ebenfalls fürdie freiwilligen...

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health ofworkers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addressestwo important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectionalcausality problems and (b)...

This paper analyzes the effect of job satisfaction on labor turnover by gender usingdata from the first two waves of the Swiss Household Panel (1999 and 2000). The resultsreveal that job satisfaction is a very good predictor of future quits, yet the effect differsbetween men and women: all other...

In this paper, job mobility is analyzed with microdata on job turnover intentionsfrom a single survey covering 25 countries. Making reference to the vast psychology literatureon this topic, it is argued that these intentions are good predictors for actual turnovers. Sincecross-national evidence...