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Quit behavior and the role of job protection
Gielen, Anne C.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2012
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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Extra status and extra stress: Are promotions good for us?
Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287604
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Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit
Shields, Michael A.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2000
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262343
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Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession
Shields, Michael A. - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262372
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Repeated job quits: stepping stones or learning about quality?
Gielen, Anne C. - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269024
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Does Low Job Satisfaction Lead to Job Mobility?
Kristensen, Nicolai; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels Christian - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277231
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Work-Related Stress, Quitting Intentions and Absenteeism
Leontaridi, Rannia M.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002
The paper uses data from the International Social Surveys Program (ISSP) to investigate work-related stress among a … group of 15 OECD countries. It examines the determinants of work-related stress and explores the importance of work …-related stress as a predictor of individuals' quitting behaviour and the rate of absenteeism. We find that those individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262746
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Trade union membership and dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …
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The value relevance of top executive departures: evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Kees; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
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Unions and the Economic Basis of Attitudes
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2016
Unions make differences to employee satisfaction that correspond to their effects on individual economic advantage. Panel data reveal how changes in economic circumstance and changes in job satisfaction are linked to changes in union coverage. When individuals move into a union covered job they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479394