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stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
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This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different …. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that studied the labour market status of migrants (probabilities of … obtains on arrival in Australia. We provide alternative definitions of what is a good job in terms of objective and subjective …
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tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical … includes data on pre-immigration occupation, the ?first? occupation in Australia (at 6 months) and the occupation after about 3 ….5 years in Australia. The hypotheses are supported by the empirical analysis. …
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. Legally segregated migrants, floaters, earn significantly less than otherwise equivalent non-migrants but routinely report … but find that it exists only for non-migrants suggesting a club good aspect to membership. In contrast to earlier studies …
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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...
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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,...
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This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on intentions to quit. Using data for ethnic minority nurses in Britain, we find that nearly 40% of nurses have experienced racial harassment from work colleagues, whilst more...
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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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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...
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Job protection reduces job turnover by changing firms' hiring and firing decisions. Yet the effect of job protection on workers' quit decisions and post-quit outcomes is still unknown. We present the first evidence using individual panel data from 12 European countries, which differ both in...
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