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Effort at Work and Worker Well-Being in the Us

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2022

This paper analyses detailed 24-hour diary data from the United States to provide evidence on the relationship between workers' effort and well-being while at work. In doing so, we first measure workers' effort in terms of its timing, its nature, and its composition. Second, we link these three...

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Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation

Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014

Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A special issue of the investigation is related to the evaluation of performance pay scales that were introduced some years ago to German public employees within the frame of...

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Job Satisfaction and Co-Worker Wages : Status or Signal?

Clark, Andrew E. - 2007

This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...

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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence

Grund, Christian - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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I Can't Get No Satisfaction : The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover

Gevrek, Deniz - 2017

This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American university, this study investigates a novel hypothesis that faculty perceptions of salary raises,...

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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...

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Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people's employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...

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Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs : Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Odermatt, Reto - 2017

The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that...

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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021

entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing … wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, start-up costs weaken this relationship by depressing the …

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