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Public service motivation and job satisfaction in China: An investigation of generalisability and instrumentality

Liu, Bangcheng; Tang, Ningyu; Zhu, Xiaomei - In: International Journal of Manpower 29 (2008) November, pp. 684-699

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate how generalisable the public service motivation (PSM) observed in Western society is to China and to examine the effects of public service motivation on job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – Exploratory factor analysis and...

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Multiple job holding in the United Kingdom: evidence from the Bristish household panel survey

Wu, Zhongmin; Baimbridge, Mark; Zhu, Yu - Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business … - 2008

This paper examines the determinants of multiple job holding in the United Kingdom. We address these issues using data from the first eleven waves of the British Household Panel Survey, which covered the period from 1991 to 2001. Evidence from the BHPS does not support the hypotheses of main job...

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The impact of gender differences on determinants of job satisfaction among Chinese off-farm migrants in Jiangsu

Smyth, Russell; Zhai, Qingguo; Li, Xiaoxu - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 7 (2009) 3, pp. 363-380

This study examines the effect of own income versus reference group income and the subjective factors considered important in a job for a sample of off-farm migrants in China. We find that own income has a positive effect on job satisfaction while the effect of reference group income is gender...

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Impact of organizational structure on nurses’ job satisfaction: A questionnaire survey.

WILLEM, A.; BUELENS, M.; JONGHE, I. DE - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2005

Background<br> Nurses’ job satisfaction is an important issue because of its impact on the quality of the nursing job. Therefore, it receives a lot of attention in the international nursing literature but insight into the sources of nurses’ job satisfaction is yet insufficient, in particular for...

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Objective overeducation and worker well-being: a shadow price approach

VERHAEST, D.; OMEY, E. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2008

a reasonable wage increase at the start of the first employment. These outcomes suggest that, at labour market entry …

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Comparing levels of job satisfaction in the countries of Western and Eastern Europe

Borooah, Vani K. - In: International Journal of Manpower 30 (2009) July, pp. 304-325

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a comparison of job satisfaction levels between countries of Western and Eastern Europe by first examining the extent of difference between the two sets of countries and then explaining these differences in terms of differences in job characteristics...

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Colleagues' norms regarding work-related messages : their differential effects among remote and onsite workers

Gillet, Nicolas; Austin, Stéphanie; … - In: Personnel review 53 (2024) 1, pp. 173-192

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Socio-Economic Differences in the Perceived Quality of High and Low-Paid Jobs in Europe

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodossiou, Ioannis - EconWPA - 2005

satisfaction of high and low wage workers in the United Kingdom, France and Denmark. The empirical evidence therefore suggests that … low-paid jobs in the EU are not universally of low quality, though in some countries low wage workers have experienced the … be of equal importance to those that focus on the level of pay. A homogeneous policy of removing low wage employment …

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Do Job Disamenities Raise Wages or Ruin Job Satisfaction?

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This study investigates the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of individual wages and overall job satisfaction in the Finnish labour market. The potential influence of adverse working conditions on self-reported fairness of pay at the workplace is considered as an...

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Geneses of labour market turnover: Job search and entrepreneurial aspirations on-the-job

Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two “search processes” side-by-side and report three main findings: First, neither entrepreneurial...

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