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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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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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This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values …
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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 …
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self-employment rate and the unemployment rate. It is also shown that the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs …
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The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the United States between 1978 and 1988 …, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings … determinants of satisfaction are presented and examined using both cross-section data on these cohorts and panel data from the NLSY …
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We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United …
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We develop a theory that focuses on the general equilibrium and long-run macroeconomic consequences of trends in job utility--the process benefits and costs of work. Given secular increases in job utility, work hours per population can remain approximately constant over time even if the income...
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This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...
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-related characteristics constant, workers assigned to more complex jobs seem to be more likely to quit than are workers assigned to simpler … jobs. Job complexity has no discernible effect on absenteeism. Matching better educated workers to more complex jobs … increases worker satisfaction is likely to stem from the experimental design: asking for volunteers to be assigned more complex …
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