This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...

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...

Die Zahl der Zugänge in die Erwerbsminderungsrente ist nach Angaben der Deutschen Rentenversicherung seit den 90er Jahren stark gesunken. In den Jahren 2005 bis 2010 erfolgte ein leichter Wiederanstieg. Seit 2001 haben sich auch die Zahlbeträge bei den Zugängen zur Erwerbsminderungsrente...

In modern era, stress at workplace is a component of employees’ and organizations’ daily routine. The current research intends to study the gender differences as far as the ways that stress is witnessed in the workplace is concerned. Participants in this study were 231 Greek adults, employed...

Increasing labor mobility is high on the political agenda because of its supposedly positive effects on labor market functioning. However, little attention has been paid to information imperfections, and to what extent they limit potential efficiency gains of labor mobility. When the quality of...

The development of human resources that finds an important practical application in enterprises from the developed world, account facts which refer to the conclusion that satisfaction of employee can greatly contribute to increasing productivity in enterprises and in states from whole world....

This paper estimates an earnings function for Sri Lanka, followed by a decomposition analysis of male-female earnings suggest that the gender disparity in earnings largely represents "discrimination" against women. The findings showed that irrespective of their "inferior" labour market...

This paper examines the factors that influence QWL and investigate the relationship between QWL and satisfaction among employees working in the Oil and Gas companies in the State of Qatar. While much of the attention been directed to the concept of QWL in developed countries, it has received...

In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...

It is systemic to expound how that the speculative behaviors are driven by the number of a series housing policies promulgated by China's government for the real estate market. The market is resulted in full of speculative behaviors, and has been booming since the beginning of this decade, even...