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Working from Home and Job Satisfaction: The Role of Gender and Personality Traits
Esposito, Piero; Mendolia, Silvia; Scicchitano, Sergio; … - 2024
extends to various aspects of self-reported job satisfaction, by gender and personality traits as per the Big-Five framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533935
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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269197
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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? Evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010
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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Are self-employed really happier than employees? An approach modelling adaptation and anticipation effects to self-employment and general job changes
Hanglberger, Dominik; Merz, Joachim - 2011
Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...
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Speeding Up on the Learning Curve: The Evaluation of Telework Following a Surge in Telework Experience
Moens, Eline; Lippens, Louis; D'hert, Liam; Baert, Stijn - 2024
This letter adds to the literature on the importance of telework experience in employee evaluation by leveraging the … telework experience accumulated during the COVID-19 crisis. We conducted a follow-up survey on the evaluation of telework … evaluation as telework experience increased. Migration background, feedback on the job, and compatibility of the job with …
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Non-Standard 'Contingent' Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; McVicar, Duncan; Wooden, Mark - 2013
It is widely assumed that contingent forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, labour-hire and casual employment, are associated with low quality jobs. This hypothesis is tested using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally...
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Temporary Contracts and Young Workers' Job Satisfaction in Italy
Bruno, Giovanni S. F.; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, … - 2013
The Italian process of flexibilization of the labour market has created a dual market populated by protected permanent employees and unprotected temporary workers. The latter comprises not only temporary employment relationships but also autonomous collaborations used by firms as low-cost de...
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Your money or your life: changing job quality in OECD countries
Clark, Andrew E. - 2005
Job quality may usefully be thought of as depending on both job values (how much workers care about different job outcomes) and the job outcomes themselves. Here both cross-section and panel data are used to examine changes in job quality in OECD countries over the 1990s. Despite rising wages...
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Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing
Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew E.; Green, Colin P. - 2021
A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects among those holding stock, or more general effects on sentiment, with individuals taking rising stock prices as an indicator of improvements in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658285
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Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction – The Role of Employees' Time Autonomy and Gender
Grund, Christian; Tilkes, Katja Rebecca - 2021
moderating effect of working time autonomy on this relation and we also consider the corresponding role of gender. First … autonomy on the link between mismatch and job satisfaction. Third, our analyses hint at gender-specific differences …
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