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Your money or your life: Changing job quality in OECD countries Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Andrew E. Clark
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This paper uses both cross-section and panel information on employees in OECD countries to examine job values and outcomes over the 1990s. Job values have been stable over the 1990s, and are not noticeably cyclical. Despite rising wages and falling hours, overall job satisfaction is either stagnant or falling. These movements are not due to changes in the type of workers. A number of pieces of evidence point to stress and hard work as being at least an important part of what has gone wrong with employees' jobs. Last, we find increasing inequality in a number of job outcomes. We also find that the young and the higher-educated have been insulated against downward movements in job quality. There is some tentative evidence that trade unions may have protected their members against adverse job outcomes.
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"The (unexpected) structure of "rents" on the French and British labour markets ,"
DELTA Working Papers
2004-06, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).
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Clark, Andrew E. & Senik, Claudia, 2004.
"The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets ,"
IZA Discussion Papers
1438, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
[Downloadable!] Clark, Andrew E. & Senik, Claudia, 2006.
"The (unexpected) structure of "rents" on the French and British labour markets ,"
The Journal of Socio-Economics ,
Elsevier, vol. 35(2), pages 180-196, April.
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"Does Union Membership Really Reduce Job Satisfaction? ,"
British Journal of Industrial Relations ,
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Other versions: John S. Heywood & W. S. Siebert & Xiangdong Wei, 2002.
"Worker sorting and job satisfaction: The case of union and government jobs ,"
Industrial and Labor Relations Review ,
ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 55(4), pages 595-609, July.
Bauer, Thomas K., 2004.
"High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe ,"
IZA Discussion Papers
1265, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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Andrew E. Clark, 2004.
"What makes a good job? Evidence from OECD countries ,"
DELTA Working Papers
2004-28, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).
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Francis Green, 2001.
"It's Been A Hard Day's Night: The Concentration and Intensification of Work in Late Twentieth-Century Britain ,"
British Journal of Industrial Relations ,
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Francis Green & Nicholas Tsitsianis, 2004.
"Can the Changing Nature of Jobs Account for National Trends in Job Satisfaction? ,"
Studies in Economics
0406, Department of Economics, University of Kent.
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David G. Blanchflower & Richard Freeman, 1997.
"The attitudinal legacy of Communist labor relations ,"
Industrial and Labor Relations Review ,
ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 50(3), pages 438-459, April.
Andrew Clark & Yannis Georgellis & Peter Sanfey, 1997.
"Job Satisfaction, Wage Changes and Quits: Evidence from Germany ,"
Studies in Economics
9711, Department of Economics, University of Kent.
Other versions: Richard B. Freeman, 1978.
"Job Satisfaction as an Economic Variable ,"
NBER Working Papers
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Working Papers
000276, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department.
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Green, Francis & McIntosh, Steven, 2001.
"The intensification of work in Europe ,"
Labour Economics ,
Elsevier, vol. 8(2), pages 291-308, May.
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Clark, Andrew E., 1997.
"Job satisfaction and gender: Why are women so happy at work? ,"
Labour Economics ,
Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 341-372, December.
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"Unemployment as a Social Norm: Psychological Evidence from Panel Data ,"
Journal of Labor Economics ,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 21(2), pages 289-322, April.
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"Pecuniary and non-pecuniary aspects of self-employment survival ,"
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance ,
Elsevier, vol. 47(1), pages 94-112, March.
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George A. Akerlof & Andrew K. Rose & Janet L. Yellen, 1988.
"Job Switching and Job Satisfaction in the U.S. Labor Market ,"
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity ,
Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 19(1988-2), pages 495-594.
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Clark, Andrew E., 2001.
"What really matters in a job? Hedonic measurement using quit data ,"
Labour Economics ,
Elsevier, vol. 8(2), pages 223-242, May.
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Francis Green, 2003.
"The Rise and Decline of Job Insecurity ,"
Studies in Economics
0305, Department of Economics, University of Kent.
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Blanchflower, David G., 2008.
"International Evidence on Well-being ,"
IZA Discussion Papers
3354, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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Other versions: Andrew E. Clark, 2006.
"Born to be mild? Cohort effects don't explain why well-being is U-shaped in age ,"
PSE Working Papers
2006-35, PSE (Ecole normale supérieure).
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Andrew E. Clark & Yarine Fawaz, 2009.
"Valuing jobs via retirement: European evidence ,"
PSE Working Papers
2009-18, PSE (Ecole normale supérieure).
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Vicente Royuela & Jordi Suriñach, 2009.
"Quality in work and aggregate productivity ,"
IREA Working Papers
200901, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Jan 2009.
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Grün, Carola & Hauser, Wolfgang & Rhein, Thomas, 2008.
"Finding a job: Consequences for life satisfaction and interactions with job quality ,"
IAB Discussion Paper
200824, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
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Andrew E. Clark, 2007.
"Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age ,"
IZA Discussion Papers
3170, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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Guglielmo Maria Caporale & Yannis Georgellis & Nicholas Tsitsianis & Ya Ping Yin, 2007.
"Income and Happiness across Europe: Do Reference Values Matter? ,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Caporale, Guglielmo Maria & Georgellis, Yannis & Tsitsianis, Nicholas & Yin, Ya Ping, 2009.
"Income and happiness across Europe: Do reference values matter? ,"
Journal of Economic Psychology ,
Elsevier, vol. 30(1), pages 42-51, February.
[Downloadable!] (restricted) Andrew E. Clark & Andrew J. Oswald, 2006.
"The curved relationship between subjective well-being and age ,"
PSE Working Papers
2006-29, PSE (Ecole normale supérieure).
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Andrew E. Clark, 2009.
"Work, jobs and well-being across the Millennium ,"
PSE Working Papers
2009-02, PSE (Ecole normale supérieure).
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Andrew E. Clark, 2009.
"Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium ,"
OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
83, OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs.
[Downloadable!] Clark, Andrew E., 2009.
"Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium ,"
IZA Discussion Papers
3940, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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