The Effect of Job Satisfaction on Job Search: Not just whether, but also where

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Using survey data of public sector employees in the Netherlands, this paper shows that workers' satisfaction with various job domains not only affects whether but also where workers search for another job. An intuitive pattern emerges. Workers try to leave their current employer when their job search is instigated by dissatisfaction with an organisation-specific job domain, like management. Conversely, more job-specific problems, like a lack of autonomy, lead workers to opt for another position within their current organisation. Dissatisfaction with job domains which may have an industry-specific component, such as job duties, drives workers out of their industry. These findings suggest that on-the-job experience provides workers with information about the quality of their own job as well as of other jobs in their organisation and industry.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 05-097/1

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy ; Public Sector Labor Markets ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Personnel Economics: Labor Management
• Thema: Job search ; job satisfaction ; public sector employees ; Suchtheorie ; Arbeitszufriedenheit ; Öffentlicher Dienst ; Theorie ; Niederlande

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Delfgaauw, Josse
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Tinbergen Institute
• (wo): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (wann): 2005

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/86561
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ