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Men's sexual orientation and job satisfaction
Drydakis, Nick - 2012
This study investigates the differences in three aspects of job satisfaction - total pay, promotion prospects, and respect received from one's supervisor - between male heterosexual and gay employees in Athens, Greece. Gay employees are found to be less satisfied according to all job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282454
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Part-time work, gender and job satisfaction: evidence from a developing country
López Bóo, Florencia; Madrigal, Lucia; Pagés, Carmen - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268968
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Part-time work, gender and job satisfaction: Evidence from a developing country
López Bóo, Florencia; Madrigal, Lucia; Pagés, Carmen - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278219
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Sex, Race, and Job Satisfaction among Highly Educated Workers
Hersch, Joni; Xiao, Jean - 2015
There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401616
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Effect of Sexual Orientation on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2014
This study investigates the differences in four aspects of job satisfaction between gay men/lesbians and heterosexuals. The analysis results suggest that gay men and lesbians are less satisfied with their jobs, by all job satisfaction measures, than heterosexual employees, all other factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352223
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Minority representation at work
Breuer, Matthias; Cai, Wei; Le, Anthony; Vetter, Felix - 2024
Recent proposals for a more inclusive capitalism call for labor and minority representation in corporate governance. We … examine the joint promise of labor and minority representation in the context of German works councils. The councils are a … powerful form of labor representation that grants elected delegates of shop-floor workers codetermination rights (e.g., over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528278
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Long shadows of history: Persecution in Central Europe and its labor market consequences
Myck, Michal; Bohacek, Radim - 2011
. Retrospective information collected in the SHARELIFE interview offers a unique chance to relate past and current labor market … level data with details on labor market histories is matched with information on the experiences of state oppression. On …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282484
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The Sexual Harassment of Female Active-Duty Personnel: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2001
This paper examines the relationship between sexual harassment and the job satisfaction and intended turnover of active-duty women in the U.S. military using unique data from a survey of the incidence of unwanted gender-related behavior conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense. Overall, 70.9...
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Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Vuri, Daniela - 2008
This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that men experience higher wage growth than women during the first 10 years of their career, and that this difference is particularly large when workers...
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Do Women Earn Less Even as Social Entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - 2014
Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...
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