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Can the changing nature of jobs account for national trends in job satisfaction?
Green, Francis; Tsitsianis, Nicholas - 2004
by changes in the quality of jobs. There were falls in job satisfaction in both Britain and Germany. Elsewhere job … satisfaction, in order to attempt to account statistically for trends in job satisfaction in Britain and in Germany. We find that … in job satisfaction in either country. In Germany there was a modest fall in the proportion of people working the number …
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Retaining the Thin Blue Line: What Shapes Workers' Intentions not to Quit the Current Work Environment
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current … department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police … (social capital), a higher level of interactional justice and a higher level of work-life-balance substantially reduces police …
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The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime
Traub, Stefan - 2006
contributions for the original citizens. As an empirical example, we employ Germany?s crime statistic in order to assess the … efficiency of the provision of police services at the state level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296256
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Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction
Tansel, Aysıt; Gazioglu, Şaziye - 2013
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain.We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size, and Job Satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - 2013
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500240
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Are Self-Employed Really Happier than Employees? An Approach Modelling Adaptation and Anticipation Effects to Self-Employment and General Job Changes
Hanglberger, Dominik; Merz, Joachim - 2011
Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...
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Arbeitszufriedenheit und Persönlichkeit: "Wer schaffen will, muss fröhlich sein!"
Fietze, Simon - 2011
The research on job satisfaction has a long history and is one of the most intensively studied subjects - not only in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. The various studies can roughly be classified into situational, dispositional, and hybrid approaches, depending on whether...
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Continuous Training, Job Satisfaction and Gender: An Empirical Analysis Using German Panel Data
Burgard, Claudia; Görlitz, Katja - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601036
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Fixed-term employment, work organization and job satisfaction: Evidence from German individual-level data
Beckmann, Michael; Cornelissen, Thomas; Schauenberg, Bernd - 2009
The present paper examines the joint effect of fixed-term employment and work organization on job satisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Specifically, we analyze whether workers who are heterogeneous in terms of the type of working contract...
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262273