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Peer salaries and employee satisfaction in the workplace
Mumford, Karen A.; Smith, Peter N. - 2012
We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour...
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? : New Migrant Settlement in Australia
Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Mahuteau, Stéphane - 2004
This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262168
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An analysis of subjective views of job insecurity
Green, Francis; Dickerson, Andrew; Carruth, Alan; … - 2001
In the 1997 and 1998 waves of the British Household Panel Survey, workers are asked to assess their level of job security in terms of the probability of becoming unemployed within the next year. We examine whether these perceptions of insecurity are purely subjective or are systematically...
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Testing for Employee Discrimination Using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence
Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Theodoropoulos, … - 2003
In this paper, we directly test Becker?s theory of employee discrimination using matched worker-workplace data from … proportion of ethnic minorities at their workplace. Secondly, white employees? wages should also increase with the concentration … racial prejudice at the workplace or employees? feelings concerning job security. …
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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 Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that...
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Effiziente Fixlöhne, Arbeitsfreude und Crowding-Effekte
Neunzig, Alexander R. - 2002
direkt auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit des Arbeitnehmers auswirken. Es werden zwei Effekte betrachtet: der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296965
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Mehraufgaben-Prinzipal-Agenten-Analyse: Effiziente Arbeitsverträge für abwechslungsbegrüßende Arbeitnehmer
Neunzig, Alexander R. - 2002
Für die Prinzipal-Agenten-Theorie ist es ein weitgehend ungelöstes Rätsel, warum reale Arbeitsverträge sehr geringe monetäre Leistungsanreize spezifizieren. In dieser Arbeit wird auf der Grundlage des Prinzipal-Agenten-Ansatzes ein Modell entwickelt, dass sowohl Fixlohnverträge als auch...
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Effiziente Fixlohnverträge für arbeitsfreudige Arbeitnehmer mit Berichtspflichten
Neunzig, Alexander R. - 2002
Für die Prinzipal-Agenten-Theorie ist es ein weitgehend ungelöstes Rätsel, warum reale Arbeitsverträge sehr geringe monetäre Leistungsanreize spezifizieren. In dieser Arbeit wird auf der Grundlage des Prinzipal-Agenten-Ansatzes ein Modell entwickelt, dass Fixlohnverträge erklären kann....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296967
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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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Job satisfaction and co-worker wages: status or signal?
Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - 2007
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...
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