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Happier with the Same: Job Satisfaction of Disadvantaged Workers
Author(s) -
Perales Francisco,
Tomaszewski Wojtek
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/bjir.12152
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , job satisfaction , entitlement (fair division) , psychology , job attitude , feeling , demographic economics , social psychology , gainful employment , job performance , economics , mathematical economics , economic growth
Job satisfaction evaluations depend not only on the objective circumstances that workers experience in their jobs, but also on their subjective dispositions, such as their aspirations, expectations, feelings of entitlement or personal evaluation criteria. We use matched employer–employee data from the United Kingdom to examine whether and how subjective dispositions influencing job satisfaction vary across workers with different socio‐demographic traits. We approximate jobs using detailed occupations within workplaces and find that most of the variability in job satisfaction is at the worker rather than the proximate‐job level, and that workers with disadvantaged statuses report higher satisfaction with the same jobs than those with advantaged statuses.

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