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Working from Home, COVID-19 and Job Satisfaction

Laß, Inga; Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Wooden, Mark - 2023

workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour … Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models of job satisfaction are estimated. Changes in the share of total … weekly work hours usually worked from home are not found to have any significant association with changes in job satisfaction …

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Mapping Good Work: The Quality of Working Life Across the Occupational Structure

Williams, Mark; Zhou, Ying; Zou, Min - 2020

In this illuminating study of working life, leading experts in the sociology of work draw on decades of large-scale survey data to consider various notions of the quality of work in the Britain. Exploring data on hundreds of occupations, it charts why some occupations feel more rewarding than...

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Education and the Determinants of Job Satisfaction

Vila, Luis; Garcia-Mora, Belen - In: Education Economics 13 (2005) 4, pp. 409-425

-assessed satisfaction with diverse specific aspects of their jobs. We find that the effects of education level on job satisfaction differ … employment are relevant as determinants of job satisfaction irrespective of workers' education level. …

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Keep your résumé current

Engemann, Kristie M.; Friedberg, Leora; Owyang, Michael T. - In: The Regional Economist (2005) Jan, pp. 4-9

Workers are switching jobs more often than in the past. Among the reasons are changes in technology, changes in demographics and changes in such institutions as unions and international trade.

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La satisfacción hacia el trabajo. Un análisis basado en las teorias de las expectativas y de equidad

Chánez, López; Javier, Francisco; Casique Guerrero, Alicia - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2007) 3, pp. 219-234

The purpose of this research is to study job satisfaction, within an new labor culture environment, which has modified … exigences stand for personnel satisfaction. Through a three-firm comparative descriptive study, performed in Bajío community …. On the basis of their management models and employee job satisfaction those firms have been described. Job satisfaction …

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Changing government policy and the resultant behavioural consequences within an accounting environment

Goodwin, David R.; Bloore, Ross - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 4 (2007) 2, pp. 161-182

This paper examines the behavioural impacts in an accounting environment arising from changes to government policy. Specifically, such impacts arose from a changed government policy that granted nationals or natives preferential access to training and promotion opportunities within the work...

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Job disamenities, job satisfaction, and on-the-job search: is there a nexus?

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This study explores the potential role of adverse working conditions at the workplace in the determination of on-the-job search in the Finnish labour market. The results reveal that workers currently facing adverse working conditions have greater intentions to switch jobs and they are also more...

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Wage and employer changes over the life cycle

Rupert, Peter - In: Economic Commentary (2004) Apr

Economists have long observed that wages alone do not fully reflect a job’s value—job “amenities” also play a role. Recent empirical studies have confirmed this observation to be the case. Researchers are also finding that workers frequently choose to take lower-paying jobs, which...

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Job Insecurity and Wage Outcomes in Britain

Campbell, David; Carruth, Alan; Dickerson, Andrew; … - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2001

In 1996 and 1997, approximately 1 in 10 British workers thought that it was either likely or very likely that they would lose their job within 12 months. Increased job insecurity has been touted as a possible cause for the decline of equilibrium unemployment in Britain and the United States...

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Can the Changing Nature of Jobs Account for National Trends in Job Satisfaction?

Green, Francis; Tsitsianis, Nicholas - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2004

We investigate whether trends in job satisfaction, which arguably signal trends in worker well-being, can be explained … by changes in the quality of jobs. There were falls in job satisfaction in both Britain and Germany. Elsewhere job … satisfaction has been either stable or declining very slowly. In many countries, the series of data on job satisfaction is too …

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