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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...
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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011
Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278374
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Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten; Feijten, Peteke - 2011
residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals …
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Evidence for a 'midlife crisis' in great apes consistent with the U-shape in human well-being
Weiss, Alexander; King, James E.; Inoue-Murayama, Miho; … - 2012
Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in...
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Beyond GDP and back: What is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?
Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
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Never the same after the first time: the satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed
Clark, Andrew E.; Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David - 2008
Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...
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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
satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this …
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 … recognition. We show that a negative association between membership and satisfaction only emerges where there is a union … effect on satisfaction. Our estimates indicate that the unobserved factors that lead to sorting across workplaces are …
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 … overall job satisfaction do not vary widely by gender. This result is explained through the nature of our dataset, limited as … male counterparts. Ordered probit analysis is used to analyse the determinants of an academic?s overall satisfaction at …
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