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 …

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 …

This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values …

Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …

new evidence on the effects of relative pay on individual job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen … employees. All employees were then surveyed about their job satisfaction and job search intentions. Our information treatment … median for their pay unit and occupation report lower pay and job satisfaction, while those earning above the median report …

satisfaction among employees. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment with a bank in Colombia to change the frequency and … intervention also improved worker satisfaction and reduced stress levels, without affecting the quality of the loan officers …

This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with … working, tend to be employed in jobs that involve more social interactions. In each data set we find a significant and sizable … relationship between the tendency to interact with others off the job and while working. People's descriptions of their jobs and …

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 …

jobs, so as to increase both life satisfaction and workplace efficiency … that determine the distribution of jobs and wages? In Adam Smith%u2019s classic formulation, and in much of the subsequent … aptitudes that enable people of high ability to have jobs with both high wages and good working conditions, thus understating …