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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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whether migrants are more likely to accept bad jobs after the legislative changes. The paper uses bivariate probit models to …
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satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this … contracts, but not of their French counterparts. In France, such rents are found in full-time, rather than part-time jobs. Hence …
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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 …
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This paper considers job satisfaction in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of … whole women generally express themselves as more satisfied with their jobs than men. Our results show that reports of … overall job satisfaction do not vary widely by gender. This result is explained through the nature of our dataset, limited as …
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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 … determinants of satisfaction are presented and examined using both cross-section data on these cohorts and panel data from the NLSY …
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investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses, and establish the importance of job satisfaction in determining … nurses? intentions to quit the NHS. We find that nurses who report overall dissatisfaction with their jobs have a 65% higher …
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This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on … harassment at the workplace leads to a significant reduction in job satisfaction, which, in turn, significantly increases nurses …
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This paper examines the relationship between sexual harassment and the job satisfaction and intended turnover of active … sexually harassing behavior is associated with reduced job satisfaction and heightened intentions to leave the military … sexually harassing behavior itself on job satisfaction by almost a half while virtually eliminating it for intentions to leave …
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The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job … satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is …
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