Reported Job Satisfaction: What Does It Mean?

By L. Lévy-Garboua, Claude Montmarquette. 2004

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We emphasize the major influences of experienced utility gaps or regret, i.e. the difference between what happened and what might have happened, on job satisfaction. The main prediction that we test is that job satisfaction correlates with the wage gaps experienced in the past and present, holding other job-related satisfactions constant, with the possible exception of young workers. We further test that this effect of wage gaps on job satisfaction declines with working experience. We find evidence on a Canadian cross-section that the past matters.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Social Psychology

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Well-being, job satisfaction and labour mobility (2010, background): “Levy-Garboua and Montmarquette (2004) and Levy-Garboua et al. (2007), for example, argue that a person's job satisfaction is in effect an evaluation, an “experienced or post-decisional preference for her job relative to outside opportunities” (2007: p.252).”
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, unknown): “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.”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, unknown): “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.”
How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness (2004, methodology): “The ordered latent-response model also seems to be the one most used in economic analyses of job satisfaction (Clark, 1997; Levy-Garboua and Montmarquette, 1997; Sousa-Poza and Sousa-Poza, 2000; Hamermesh, 2001)”
Jobs as Lancaster Goods: Facets of Job Satisfaction and Overall Job Satisfaction (2008, unknown): “The posterior choice model (Levy-Garboua and Montmarquette, 1997) can explain that job satisfaction is U-shaped in age.”
How satisfied are they and why? A study of job satisfaction, job rewards, gender and temporary agency workers in Australia (2010, background): “Others argue that true underlying constructs cannot be directly tapped into because of the varying norms and expectations respondents have (Levy-Garboua and Montmarquette, 2004).”
Job satisfaction and quits (2007, methodology): “For further discussion of this issue, see Lévy-Garboua and Montmarquette (2004).”