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differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework where self-employed workers minimize … their commuting time, employees do not minimize their commuting time because they lack full information, and thus the … difference between the time devoted to commuting by self-employed workers and employees is modeled as wasteful commuting (i …
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experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
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This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using …
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This paper uses linked employer-employee data to investigate the relationship between employees' subjective well …
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This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and … on the impact of reduction in dependent college tuition at various levels on employees' intentions to work harder and …
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In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation … given year to be able to sustain the cooperative relationship with the employees. …
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There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are …
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After the apparent rise of so‐called atypical and 'precarious' jobs, the quality of employment has become of interest because such employment relationships are often related to objectively or subjectively worse working conditions. In this paper we look in detail into what is known about job...
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The literature documents that job satisfaction is positively correlated with worker performance and productivity. We examine whether aggregate job satisfaction in a certain labor market environment can have an impact on individual-level job satisfaction. If the answer is yes, then policies...
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Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...
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