This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other …

worker satisfaction.Theoretically, the wages of others may affect workers' utility for two main reasons: Workers may derive …

affect job satisfaction in two opposite ways, through the affective, relative deprivation, and the cognitive channel. The … peer earnings dominates social comparisons for those in financial distress. It further suggests job satisfaction is a …

to show that employee job satisfaction moves with share prices among those whose pay is partly determined by company …

satisfaction. Furthermore, we consider the dynamics of work and leisure satisfaction because the balance between work and leisure … is an important element of life satisfaction. Fixed-effects regressions using German Socio-Economic Panel data (1984 …-2012) reveal that switching to self-employment benefits life and work satisfaction. The effects on life satisfaction are weak and …

We analyze how income ranks influence job satisfaction. Rank is defined as the wage percentile in which the individual … past rank changes on self-reported satisfaction and to assess after how much time the effect of ranks on individual well …-being disappears. We find that both ranks and rank mobility are relevant drivers of job satisfaction, but their impact is short-lived …

satisfaction. Furthermore, we consider the dynamics of work and leisure satisfaction because the balance between work and leisure … is an important element of life satisfaction. Fixed-effects regressions using German Socio-Economic Panel data (1984 …-2012) reveal that switching to self-employment benefits life and work satisfaction. The effects on life satisfaction are weak and …

pay satisfaction. Since worker satisfaction can affect the worker's productivity, organizational commitment, turnover … a large positive and significant effect on both pay and job satisfaction. In our preferred models with establishment …-level fixed effects, the effect of coworker pay on pay satisfaction is half as large, and the effect on job satisfaction …

correlated with subjective well-being, both in terms of cognitive evaluations (life and job satisfaction) and affect (the …