Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe whether workers in high positions and workers in low positions think differently about status and possible future career advancement opportunities. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses German panel data to examine the effects of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe whether workers in high positions and workers in low positions think differently about status and possible future career advancement opportunities. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses German panel data to examine the effects of...

Using survey data from 25 European countries, we can show that in most of the countries the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs than employees. This paper aims to discuss the reasons why this is the case. The results show that part of the differences in job satisfaction between...

We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...

We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...

The authors analyze the importance of relative wage positions within firms in western Germany in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Using a linked employer-employee data set (LIAB) for the years 1996-2005 whose sample consists of full-time male...