Arbeitspapier

The magic of the new: How job changes affect job satisfaction

We investigate a crucial event for job satisfaction: changing the workplace. For representative German panel data, we show that the reason why the previous employment ended is strongly linked to the satisfaction with the new job. When workers initiate a change of employer, they experience relatively high job satisfaction, though only in the short-term. To test causality, we exploit plant closure as exogenous trigger of job switching and find no causal effect of job changes on job satisfaction. Our findings concern research on workers' well-being as well as labor market and human resource policies.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IAAEU Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 05/2014

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
General Welfare; Well-Being
Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Personnel Economics: General
Thema
job satisfaction
job changes
new job
honeymoon-hangover effect
plant closure

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Chadi, Adrian
Hetschko, Clemens
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Trier, Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU)
(wo)
Trier
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Chadi, Adrian
  • Hetschko, Clemens
  • University of Trier, Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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