Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 5,481
Cover Image
Sex, race, and job satisfaction among highly educated workers
Hersch, Joni; Xiao, Jean Y. - 2015
There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346636
Cover Image
Minority representation at work
Breuer, Matthias; Cai, Wei; Le, Anthony; Vetter, Felix - 2024 - This version: May 2024
Recent proposals for a more inclusive capitalism call for labor and minority representation in corporate governance. We … examine the joint promise of labor and minority representation in the context of German works councils. The councils are a … powerful form of labor representation that grants elected delegates of shop-floor workers codetermination rights (e.g., over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528151
Cover Image
Sex, Race, and Job Satisfaction Among Highly Educated Workers
Hersch, Joni - 2015
There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014043
Cover Image
Gender, Race, and Job Satisfaction of Law Graduates : Intersectional Evidence from the National Survey of College Graduates
Hersch, Joni - 2023
Studies typically find that lawyers have high job satisfaction and that women are not less satisfied than are men. But racial differences as well as gender differences by race or ethnicity in satisfaction may be masked because most lawyers identify as racially White. To examine whether job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261603
Cover Image
Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from a Developing Country
López Bóo, Florencia - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764685
Cover Image
Explaining the gender gap in job satisfaction
Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus - 2019
In general, women report greater job satisfaction than men. The existing literature cannot fully explain the nature of this difference, as the gap tends to persist even when controlling for job characteristics. In this paper, we study job satisfaction using recent data for 28 EU countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126780
Cover Image
Household decisions and the gender gap in job satisfaction
Bredemeier, Christian; Ndlovu, Patrick; Vujić, Sunčica; … - 2024
This paper offers a novel theoretical explanation for the gender gap in job satisfaction, where women typically report higher job satisfaction than men. We argue that rational family decisions can result in divergent job choices for women and men, leading to increased job satisfaction but lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463674
Cover Image
Explaining the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction
Redmond, Paul - 2019
In general, women report greater job satisfaction than men. The existing literature cannot fully explain the nature of this difference, as the gap tends to persist even when controlling for job characteristics. In this paper, we study job satisfaction using recent data for 28 EU countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860505
Cover Image
Working from home and job satisfaction : the role of gender and personality traits
Esposito, Piero; Mendolia, Silvia; Scicchitano, Sergio; … - 2024
In this paper we investigate the effect of working-from home (WFH) on job satisfaction. We use longitudinal data from Italy to estimate a difference-in-differences model, in which the treatment group includes individuals who transitioned to remote work in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463169
Cover Image
Working from home and job satisfaction : the role of gender and personality traits
Esposito, Piero; Mendolia, Silvia; Scicchitano, S.; … - 2024
In this paper we investigate the effect of working-from home (WFH) on job satisfaction. We use longitudinal data from Italy to estimate a difference-in-differences model, in which the treatment group includes individuals who transitioned to remote work in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465496