We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...

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)...

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 stability is analyzed for Switzerland in the years 1991 to 2001using data from the first 11 waves of the Swiss Labor Force Survey (SLFS). Job stability ismeasured with one-year job separations and with on-the-job search behavior. For bothmeasures, the SLFS has interesting...

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...