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Life satisfaction and self-employment:A matching approach
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with theirjobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more satised with their lives as awhole? High job satisfaction might cause them to neglect other important domains of life,such that the fullling job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009138617
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JOB SATISFACTION AND LABOR TURNOVER: DOES GENDER MATTER?*
Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Sousa-Poza, Andrés A. - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen> - 2003
This paper analyzes the effect of job satisfaction on labor turnover by gender usingdata from the first two waves of the Swiss Household Panel (1999 and 2000). The resultsreveal that job satisfaction is a very good predictor of future quits, yet the effect differsbetween men and women: all other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005852865
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Work-Life Balance Practices and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction in the UK : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Asadullah, Niaz; Fernández, Rosa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the “paradoxof the contented female worker”. After establishing that females report higher levels of jobsatisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB andgender segregation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859523
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Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health ofWorkers? New Evidence Using Panel Data andObjective Measures of Health
Fischer, Justina A.V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health ofworkers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addressestwo important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectionalcausality problems and (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860580
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Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages:Status or Signal?
Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual jobsatisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. Thisruns contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons insubjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861654
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Fixed-term employment and job satisfaction:Evidence from individual-level data accounting forselectivity bias
Beckmann, Michael; Binz, Andrea; Schauenberg, Bernd - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel>; … - 2007
The present paper examines the relationship between fixed-term employment and jobsatisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP).According to theoretical expectations, fixed-term employment should be associated with arelative low level of job satisfaction,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867783
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Arbeitsorganisation und Arbeitszufriedenheit – Empirische Evidenz für Deutschland auf Grundlage des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels
Fahr, René; Mammel, Patrick - Universität <Köln> / Seminar für Allgemeine … - 2007
Arbeitsorganisation, die durch Autonomie und Aufgabenvielfalt der Arbeitsstelle kennzeichnet ist, auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit. Die … empirische Untersuchung basiert auf dem ökonomischen Ansatz von Clark/Oswald (1996) und interpretiert die Arbeitszufriedenheit … die Arbeitszufriedenheit erhöht. Dies gilt unabhängig von der Definition moderner Arbeitsorganisation und unabhängig von …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868025
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Pension Policy in EU25 and its Possible Impact on ElderlyPoverty
Zaidi, Asghar; Grech, Aaron George; Fuchs, Michael - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
This paper reviews changes in pension policies in EU countries between 1995 and2005 and describes how they might affect risk of poverty for future pensionerpopulations. The pension landscape in Europe has changed considerably in the pastdecade and the paper highlights commonalities as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354013
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Good Internal Communication Increases Productivity
Opitz, Isabel; Hinner, Michael B. - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2003
Internal communication has become an important factor in today's business world. The increased use of electronic media can, despite their obvious advantages, cause communication problems, i.e. information overload. By avoiding communication problems, the productivity of a company can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864357
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Development and Sources of Labor Productivityin Chinese Provinces
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform andopenness, the development and sources of labor productivity has gradually come to theforefront. This paper studies the development and the source of labor productivity in 31Chinese provinces during the period of...
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