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stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
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We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284021
In this paper, we directly test Becker?s theory of employee discrimination using matched worker-workplace data from … proportion of ethnic minorities at their workplace. Secondly, white employees? wages should also increase with the concentration … racial prejudice at the workplace or employees? feelings concerning job security. …
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This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262168
Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...
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This paper attempts to establish empirically whether there is a link between workplace disability and employee job … techniques to account for unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find that workplace disability diversity is associated with lower … employee well-being among people with no reported disability. Tests conducted also indicate that workplace equality policies do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269118
We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196411
stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884199
Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653214
Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore … the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance …. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include age and gender, whilst workplace level characteristics of …
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