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 …

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio … positive link between job satisfaction (and changes over time therein) and subjective health measures (and changes therein …); that is, employees with higher or improved job satisfaction levels feel healthier and are more satisfied with their health …

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 sector, we find that job promotion significantly worsens people …

We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group …

In this paper, we directly test Becker?s theory of employee discrimination using matched worker-workplace data from … white employees have a taste for discrimination they should report lower levels of job satisfaction the larger the … proportion of ethnic minorities at their workplace. Secondly, white employees? wages should also increase with the concentration …

-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to … German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …

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 higher involvement of workers in HPWOs is associated with higher job … satisfaction. This positive effect is dominated by the involvement of workers in flexible work systems, indicating that workers …