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The changing distribution of job satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An...
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321397
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The effects of advanced degrees on the wage rates, hours, earnings and job satisfaction of women and men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - 2022
This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...
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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30
Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...
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Much ado about nothing? : the wage penalty of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2017
This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job-education mismatch among Ph.D. holders who completed their studies in Italy; a country where the number of new doctoral recipients has dramatically increased over recent years while...
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The (Unexpected) Structure of 'Rents' on the French and British Labour Markets
Clark, Andrew; Senik, Claudia - 2021
This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps...
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The sexual harassment of female active-duty personnel : effects on job satisfaction and intentions to remain in the military
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2001
This paper examines the relationship between sexual harassment and the job satisfaction and intended turnover of active-duty women in the U.S. military using unique data from a survey of the incidence of unwanted gender-related behavior conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense. Overall, 70.9...
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The role of job satisfaction and local labor market conditions for the dissolution of worker-job matches
Hinz, Tina; Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2019
Der Artikel untersucht den Zusammenhang von Arbeitszufriedenheit und der Auflösung von Arbeitsverhältnissen. Wir … verwenden Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) für Deutschland und schätzen multinomiale Logitmodelle mit zufälligen … Literatur finden wir einen negativen Zusammenhang zwischen der Arbeitszufriedenheit und der Auflösung eines Arbeitsverhältnisses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025836
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Fixed-term employment, work organization and job satisfaction : evidence from German individual-level data
Beckmann, Michael; Cornelißen, Thomas; Schauenberg, Bernd - 2009
The present paper examines the joint effect of fixed-term employment and work organization on job satisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Specifically, we analyze whether workers who are heterogeneous in terms of the type of working contract...
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Arbeitszufriedenheit und flexible Arbeitszeiten : empirische Analyse mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels
Hanglberger, Dominik - 2010
Abgeltungsarten von Überstunden auf die subjektive Arbeitszufriedenheit. Dazu wird zunächst die Verbreitung flexibler … Arbeitszeitformen in Deutschland im Zeitverlauf beschrieben. Auf Basis von Daten der Jahre 2005 und 2007 des Soziooekonomischen Panels … auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit bei Vollzeitbeschäftigten und eine klare Präferenz von bezahlten Überstunden gegenüber allen …
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