What Makes a Good Job? Evidence from OECD Countries

By Andrew E. Clark. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries (2005, unknown): “We also have information about job outcomes. As in Clark (2005) , and using job quality”
What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it (2020, methodology): “In economics, the most common subjective well-being measure in the work domain is job satisfaction (Clark, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2015; Sousa-Poza and Sousa-Poza, 2000; Wanous et al., 1997).2 Job satisfaction is a reflective assessment of one’s overall working environment that also incorporates…”
Good Job, Good Life? Working Conditions and Quality of Life in Europe (2010, background): “Being in paid employment is consistently ranked as one of the most important determinants of a high quality of life in Europe ( Clark 2001, 2005; Haller and Hadler 2006).”
E pluribus unum? A critical survey of job quality indicators (2011, methodology): “This is the perspective adopted, among others, by Spector (1997), Souza-Poza and SouzaPoza (2000), Clark (2005) and, partially, Green (2006).”
The Polarization Myth: Occupational Upgrading in Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, 1992–2015 (2019, background): “Other authors emphasize the inherently personal dimension of what constitutes a good or bad job and thus argue that the quality of jobs should be evaluated with subjective indicators such as job satisfaction (Clark, 2005).”
Work, Jobs and Well-Being Across the Millennium (2009, background): “7 Previous work on the first two Work Orientations modules of the ISSP (Clark, 2005 b ) had shown falling job satisfaction in OECD countries across the 1990s, and had suggested that hard work was partly behind this movement.”
The challenge of job quality (2013, methodology): “…are disputes about indicators: some measures rely on a single indicator (e.g. Osterman and Shulman, 2011), others use multiple indicators (e.g. Clark, 2005) and, when multiple measures are used, there are challenges and disagreements around the weighting of each indictor (e.g. Muñoz de…”
New Evidence on Cross-Country Differences in Job Satisfaction Using Anchoring Vignettes (2008, background): “…ranked in the very top with respect to well-being (Eurobarometer 2002, Inglehart and Klingemann 2000, Easterlin 2001) and job satisfaction (Clark 2005, Ahn and Garcia 2004, Blanch ower and Oswald 1999, Kaiser 2002).1 The validity of these satisfaction studies is important for a number of…”