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Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach

by Martin Binder Alex Coad Published in Small business economics (01.05.2013)

“...Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with their jobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more...”

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Job satisfaction and self-employment: autonomy or personality?

by Thomas Lange Published in Small business economics (01.02.2012)

“...Most studies in the economics discourse argue that the impact of self-employment on job satisfaction is mediated by greater procedural freedom and autonomy...”

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Stabilisierende Wirkungen durch Kurzarbeit

by Pusch, Toralf Seifert, Hartmut Published in Wirtschaftsdienst (Hamburg) (20210000)

“...In der Corona-Pandemie werden durch Kurzarbeit und weitere Hilfsmaßnahmen ganze Branchen stabilisiert. Dies gilt insbesondere für die stark betroffene...”

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Medical Care Spending and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Workers’ Compensation Reforms

by David Powell Seth Seabury Published in The American economic review (01.10.2018)

“...Medical care represents an important component of workers’ compensation benefits with the potential to improve health and post-injury labor outcomes, but...”

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Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction

by David Card Alexandre Mas Enrico Moretti Emmanuel Saez Published in The American economic review (01.10.2012)

“...We study the effect of disclosing information on peers' salaries on workers' job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen subset of University...”

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Happiness and Productivity

by Andrew J. Oswald Eugenio Proto Daniel Sgroi Published in Journal of labor economics (01.10.2015)

“...Some firms say they care about the well-being and “happiness” of their employees. But are such claims hype or scientific good sense? We provide evidence, for a...”

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DOES WORKING FROM HOME WORK? EVIDENCE FROM A CHINESE EXPERIMENT

by Nicholas Bloom James Liang John Roberts Zhichun Jenny Ying Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.02.2015)

“...A rising share of employees now regularly engage in working from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to ‘‘shirking from home.’’ We report the...”

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A Job Demands—Resources Approach to Public Service Motivation

by Arnold B. Bakker Published in Public administration review (01.09.2015)

“...This article uses job demands–resources theory to build a model of public service motivation (PSM). Public service motivation determines how employees in the...”

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TRADE ADJUSTMENT: WORKER-LEVEL EVIDENCE

by David H. Autor David Dorn Gordon H. Hanson Jae Song Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.11.2014)

“...We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to...”

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Working Conditions and Satisfaction of Transport Service Employees

by Wawer, Ewelina Published in Central European economic journal. (19.11.2020)

“...The transition of the Polish economy has brought about profound changes in the nature of contracts between employees and employers. These changes have been...”

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Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands

by Kapteyn, Arie Smith, James P Soest, Arthur van Published in The American economic review (01.02.2007)

“...In contrast to the believed similarity in their health outcomes, workers in different Western countries report very different rates of work disability. Using...”

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Measuring the impact of innovative human capital on small firms’ propensity to innovate

by McGuirk, Helen Lenihan, Helena Hart, Mark Published in Research policy (01.05.2015)

“...•Our new Innovative Human Capital concept encapsulates four elements: education, training, willingness to change in the workplace and job satisfaction.•The...”

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Job Satisfaction and Co-Worker Wages: Status or Signal?

by Andrew E. Clark Nicolai Kristensen Niels Westergård-Nielsen Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.03.2009)

“...We use matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid...”

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Dual Job Holding and the Gig Economy: Allocation of Effort across Primary and Gig Jobs

by Doucette, Meriem Hodge Bradford, W. David Published in Southern economic journal (01.04.2019)

“...This article explored motivations for allocating effort between “gig” and primary jobs using a sample of Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. We found that main job...”

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Health, work and working conditions: a review of the European economic literature

by Thomas Barnay Published in The European journal of health economics (01.07.2016)

“...Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between...”

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Share capitalism and worker wellbeing

by Bryson, Alex Clark, Andrew E Freeman, Richard B Green, Colin P Published in Labour economics (01.10.2016)

“...We show that worker wellbeing is determined not only by the amount of compensation workers receive but also by how compensation is determined. While previous...”

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Transient nature of the employees’ job satisfaction: The case of the IT industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina

by Muamer Bezdrob Aziz Šunje Published in European Research on Management and Business Economics (01.05.2021)

“...In a time of persistent and fierce “war for talents,” which is naturally inherent to the knowledge-intensive industries, the issue of employees’ job...”

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Life Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction among University Faculty: The Impact of Working Conditions, Academic Performance and Relative Income

by Cerci, Pervin Ahu Dumludag, Devrim Published in Social indicators research (30.07.2019)

“...This study examines the effects of work related factors (such as mobbing, job security and job concern) and academic related factors (such as publications,...”

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