Job Satisfaction, Comparison Earnings, and Gender

By Peter J. Sloane, H. Williams. 2000

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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, neutral): “22 A recent review article by Pressman and Cohen (2005) describes the relationships between affective “style” and physical health; see also Steptoe et al. (2005). The medical literature has also found high correlations in the expected sense between low well-being scores and coronary heart disease (S”
Good Deal, Bad Deal? Job Satisfaction in Occupations (2003, background): “Other variables The dummies for being close to retirement (age55up) and gender (male), exert minor effects which have been examined by others (Clark, 1997; Sloane and Williams, 2000).”
Gender differences in job satisfaction in Great Britain, 1991–2000: permanent or transitory? (2003, methodology): “…in trying to explain this paradox (see, for example, Phelan, 1994; Mueller and Wallace, 1996; Clark, 1997; Sousa-Poza and Sousa-Poza, 1999, 2002; Sloane and Williams, 2000; Ward and Sloane, 2000, 2001).1 The most comprehensive economic study is that of Clark (1997) using data from the 1991…”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, methodology): “Lévy-Garboua and Montmarquette (2004), and Sloane and Williams (2000), using Canadian and British data respectively, have also found evidence that econometrically-predicted comparison income is negatively correlated with job satisfaction.”
Gender, work orientations and job satisfaction (2015, background): “…job satisfaction literature, a large number of studies have found that female workers reported higher levels of job satisfaction than their male counterparts (e.g. Brown et al., 1983; Clark, 1997; Curtice, 1993; Meng, 1990; Sloane and Williams, 2000; SousaPoza and Sousa-Poza, 2003; Townsend, 1979).”
An analysis of the determinants of job satisfaction when individuals’ baseline satisfaction levels may differ (2007, positive): “(See also Sloane and Williams, 2000 for similar conclusions from a study based on data from the British academic labour market5).”
Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences Across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization (2007, background): “So far, the gender-job satisfaction paradox, i.e. the expectation hypothesis, was confirmed for the UK (Clark 1996; 1997, Sloane and Williams 2000), whereas little has been done so far to test this hypothesis on a cross-national basis.”
Low Pay, Higher Pay and Job Satisfaction within the European Union: Empirical Evidence from Fourteen Countries (2005, neutral): “…hours of work and educational mismatches, among others (see, for instance, Borjas, 1979, Miller, 1990, Meng, 1990, Idson, 1990, Clark, 1996 and 1997, Clark and Oswald, 1996, Leontaridi and Sloane, 2001, Sousa-Poza and SousaPoza, 2000 and Sloane and William, 2000 and Jones and Sloane, 2003).”
Jobs as Lancaster Goods: Facets of Job Satisfaction and Overall Job Satisfaction (2008, positive): “Sloane and Williams (2000) also argued that the persistence of occupational segregation by gender is a result of differing tastes for work between the sexes.”