Job disamenities, job satisfaction, quit intentions, and actual separations: putting the pieces together

Böckerman, Petri and Ilmakunnas, Pekka (2007): Job disamenities, job satisfaction, quit intentions, and actual separations: putting the pieces together.

Abstract

We analyze the potential role of adverse working conditions at the workplace in the determination of employees’ quit behavior. Our data contain both detailed information on perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and quit intentions from a cross-section survey and information on employees’ actual job switches from longitudinal register data that can be linked to the survey. Reduced-form models show that employees facing adverse working conditions tend to have greater intentions to switch jobs and search for new matches more frequently. Multivariate probit models point out that job dissatisfaction that arises in adverse working conditions is related to job search and this in turn is related to actual job switches.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Institution: HECER
• Language: English
• Keywords: working conditions; job satisfaction; on-the-job search; job separation; quits
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J28 - Safety ; Job Satisfaction ; Related Public Policy

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