Besides a fundamental right, strike is an important tool available to the working class to demand better working conditions, or express their dissatisfaction toward political or business decisions. Therefore, the fact that a strike is called should be a matter for the media to exert a profound...

The aim of this paper is to identify the explanatory factors of job satisfaction of employees in Spain, with special emphasis on gender and nationality differences. For doing that, an ordered multiple answer model will be estimated, using data from the Living Standards Quality in the Job...

Quality of Service and User Satisfaction in Health System form a topic with academic and managerial importance. Knowledge on variables that influence this indicator will help guide the strategies and/or actions aimed at improving service. In this sense, the goal of this article consists in...

The present article intends to study the profile of the most valued companies regarding their labour performance in Spain. It also tries to determine the influence that this profile's characteristics have on the overall rating. For that purpose, we analyse the 100 companies, taken from the...

This paper analyzes what can be learned about the value of a statistical life (VSL) using the hedonic wage model. The time series variation of cross sectional estimates, along with the endogeneity of risk choices and the absence of adequate instruments recommends moving to panel data analysis....

Mientras el gasto en políticas activas de empleo ha crecido significativamente durante los últimos años en España, la efectividad de estas políticas dista de ser suficientemente conocida. Esta investigación parte de la idea de que estas medidas no suponen beneficios indiscutibles, como se...

Los intentos de cuantificación del valor estadístico de la vida (VEV) a través de los intercambios entre riesgo y salario se han desarrollado mayoritariamente a partir del Modelo de Salarios Hedónicos. Bajo este esquema conceptual, el presente trabajo realiza una estimación del VEV a partir...

The purpose of this research is to study job satisfaction, within an new labor culture environment, which has modified the rigid vertical organizational structure and has challenged new payment modalities, flexible production systems and labor competences-based profiles. This new stage has...

Este artículo persigue identificar los factores explicativos de la satisfacción laboral de los asalariados en España, con especial atención a los diferenciales por tipo de contrato. Nuestras estimaciones, basadas en la ECVT(1999), señalan que los asalariados son indiferentes entre un...

Quality of Service and User Satisfaction in Health System form a topic with academic and managerial importance. Knowledge on variables that influence this indicator will help guide the strategies and/or actions aimed at improving service. In this sense, the goal of this article consists in...