Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together

Authors: BÖCKERMAN, PETRI; ILMAKUNNAS, PEKKA

Source: Industrial Relations, Volume 48, Number 1, January 2009 , pp. 73-96(24)

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Abstract:

We analyze the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of employees' quit behavior. Our data contain both detailed information on perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and quit intentions from a cross-section survey, and information on employees' actual job switches from longitudinal register data that can be linked to the survey. We show that job dissatisfaction that arises in adverse working conditions is related to job search and this in turn is related to actual job switches.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00546.x

Affiliations: 1: Economic Research, Helsinki; and Helsinki School of Economics and HECER

Publication date: 2009-01-01