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Heterogeneity in union status and employee well-being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael J. - 2012
This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one's own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...
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Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?
Spencer, Marilyn; Gevrek, Deniz; Chambers, Valrie; … - 2015
This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and … the United States, we study the impact of this employee benefit on faculty and staff performance and retention. We focus … results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307378
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Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover: A Firm-Level Perspective
Frederiksen, Anders - 2015
In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345354
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Workplace performance, worker commitment and loyalty
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; McNabb, Robert; Taylor, Karl - 2011
Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285519
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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 visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262168
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The (Unexpected) Structure of ?Rents? on the French and British Labour Markets
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2004
This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262172
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Why So Unhappy? : The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction
Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2005
We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262213
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Job Satisfaction within the Scottish Academic Profession
Ward, Melanie E.; Sloane, Peter J. - 1999
This paper considers job satisfaction in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. Recent studies have revealed that in the labour force as a whole women generally express themselves as more satisfied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262271
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262273
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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
. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we … opportunities. Better retention will, in turn, lead to reduced workload. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262343