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Extra status and extra stress: Are promotions good for us?
Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2012
Promotions ordinarily involve higher wages and greater privileges; but they also often involve increased responsibility, accountability and work hours. Therefore, whether promotions are good for workers' wellbeing is an empirical question. Using high-quality panel data we estimate pre- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287604
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie F. - 2004
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272295
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The stairways to heaven: a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008
We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277710
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Antagonistic managers, careless workers and extraverted salespeople: an examination of personality in occupational choice
Ham, Roger; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Wells, Robert - 2009
Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data. Human capital variables are found to exhibit strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272891
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Occupational choice: personality matters
Ham, Roger; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Wells, Robert - 2009
from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to estimate a random effects probit model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274347
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The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2001
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262591
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Do people become healthier after being promoted?
Boyce, Christopher J.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2008
This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269022
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Are self-employed really happier than employees? An approach modelling adaptation and anticipation effects to self-employment and general job changes
Hanglberger, Dominik; Merz, Joachim - 2011
Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278663
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? : New Migrant Settlement in Australia
Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Mahuteau, Stéphane - 2004
This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different … obtains on arrival in Australia. We provide alternative definitions of what is a good job in terms of objective and subjective … criteria. The paper uses two sets of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia data: the first cohort that arrived in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262168
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Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market
Jones, Melanie; Mavromaras, Kostas; Sloane, Peter; Wei, … - 2011
data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282302