satisfaction. The former is consistent with a status effect ??? an increase in the income of others lowers my satisfaction because … satisfaction we find no support for a status or signal effect; however, when we use a psychometrically valid instrument to measure … job satisfaction, we find some support for the existence of a status effect. We consider the components of job …

satisfaction. Our aim is to study the determinants of worker perceptions of quality of work in EU Countries. In particular, we shed … light on the complex relationship that exists between job satisfaction, objective working conditions and workers … expectations. First, we determine which objective working conditions impact on the level of job satisfaction. Second, we test the …

offer jobs more highly valued by women than men or that the relationship between job satisfaction and firm size is less … negative for women than men. Using data on job satisfaction, we find evidence for the latter hypothesis as well as some … indication that wages and fringe benefits compensate for lower levels of job satisfaction in larger firms, but that this is so …

. It is based on the interpretation of job satisfaction as an expression of the experienced preference for the present job … residual of a job satisfaction equation. Our tests validate this theory of job satisfaction and the economiceconomic theory of … quits. We also find that the residual of a job satisfaction equation is a better predictor of quits than the overall level …

By reporting his satisfaction with his job or any other experience, an individual does not communicate the number of … knowledge of the past. This new interpretation of reported job satisfaction restores the power of microeconomic theory without … discrepancies are found to be the best predictor of reported job satisfaction. Static models of relative utility and other …

Based on data from the European Values Study (EVS), we compare the determinants of job satisfaction and the impact of … between unionization and job satisfaction. This is contrary to the dominant view of the impact of unionization on job … satisfaction suggesting that there is a strong, negative relationship between the two variables. We also uncover distinct …