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Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession
Shields, Michael A. - 2000
? intentions to quit their job. These findings have important policy implications for retaining qualified nursing staff in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262372
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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2004
Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWOs) on worker's job satisfaction. The estimation results show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278986
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Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit
Shields, Michael A.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2000
In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262343
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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? Evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269706
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Underpaid or overpaid? Wage analysis for nurses using job and worker attributes
Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - 2008
The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis … shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those received by other college-educated women. This … from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET). Nursing jobs require higher levels of skills and more difficult working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268978
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Screening, competition, and job design: economic origins of good jobs
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These high-performance work systems are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show experimentally...
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Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017
Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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Disability and skill mismatch
Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269604
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Repeated job quits: stepping stones or learning about quality?
Gielen, Anne C. - 2008
Despite the fact that worker quits are often associated with wage gains and higher overall job satisfaction, many workers quit once again within one or two years after changing jobs initially. Such repeated job quit behavior may arise as a stepping stone to better quality jobs (Burdett, 1978) or...
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Does Low Job Satisfaction Lead to Job Mobility?
Kristensen, Nicolai; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels Christian - 2004
This paper seeks to analyse the role of job satisfaction and actual job change behaviour. The analysis is based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) data for Danish families 1994-2000. The results show that inclusion of job satisfaction, which is a subjective measure, does improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277231