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The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more satisfied with younger wives and less satisfied with older wives. Interestingly, women likewise tend to...
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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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Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe
Fritsch, Michael - 2019
This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions, labor market regulations, quality of government, and perception of corruption for individual well-being among self-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is...
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Examining the Relationships between Labour Market Mismatches, Earnings and Job Satisfaction Among Immigrant Graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Seamus - 2014
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...
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What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace
Addison, John T. - 2018
A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...
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Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction – the Role of Employees' Time Autonomy and Gender
Grund, Christian; Tilkes, Katja - 2021
Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired working hours, is negatively related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the potential moderating effect of working time autonomy on this...
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Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers : Evidence from an Inland City
Wang, Huashu - 2013
China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes … in medium and small size cities, often located in western and central China. Understanding the characteristics and … inland China.The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the characteristics, working conditions and job attitudes …
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Job Satisfaction and the Labor Market Institutions in Urban China
Heywood, John S. - 2014
The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China …
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What Chinese Workers Value : An Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Job Expectations, and Labor Turnover in China
Nie, Peng - 2017
This study uses data from the 2012 China Labor Force Dynamics Survey and 2010–2012 China Family Panel Studies to … satisfaction and job change, an observation we attribute to China's unique Confucian-based work ethic …
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World : Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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