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their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … most with additional time spent with spouse. Among singles, satisfaction decreases most as more time is spent alone …
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union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in … United States we show the association between union membership and job satisfaction switched from negative to positive in the … between membership and job satisfaction is apparent in cohorts born in the 1940s and 1950s but turns positive for those born …
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-working time with friends. Lastly, we find that workers report substantially higher levels of job satisfaction and net affect while …
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influence of job mismatch is estimated for three job outcomes: earnings, job satisfaction and turnover. Surprisingly large and … robust influences emerge. Mismatch is associated with substantially lower earnings, lower job satisfaction and a higher rate …
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characteristics influence direct measures of life satisfaction from three large and recent Canadian surveys. The well-being results … jobs, so as to increase both life satisfaction and workplace efficiency …
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This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values …
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Organizational theorists have long acknowledged the importance of the formal and informal incentives facing a firm%u2019s employees, stressing that the political economy of a firm plays a major role in shaping organizational life and firm behavior. Yet the detailed study of incentive systems has...
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We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...
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We study how changes in the distribution of occupations have affected the aggregate non-pecuniary costs and benefits of working. The physical toll of work is smaller now than in 1950, with workers shifting away from occupations in which people report experiencing tiredness and pain. The...
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were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut …. Using repeated cross sections we show that life satisfaction in both countries may have increased relatively among those …
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