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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …
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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 …
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the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health ofworkers using the German Socio …) cross-sectionalcausality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health thatcomplement self …-reported measures of health status.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860580
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
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Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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