Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20261 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1026
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper seeks to analyse the role of job satisfaction and actual job change behaviour. The analysis is based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) data for Danish families 1994-2000. The results show that inclusion of job satisfaction, which is a subjective measure, does improve the ability to predict actual quit behaviour: Low overall job satisfaction significantly increases the probability of quit. Various job satisfaction domains are ranked according to their ability to predict quits. Satisfaction with Type of Work is found to be the most important job characteristic while satisfaction with Job Security is found to be insignificant. These results hold across age, gender and education sub-groups and are opposed to results for UK, where job security is found to be the most important job domain. This discrepancy between UK and Denmark might be due to differences in unemployment insurance benefits and indicates that there are ?invisible? benefits inherited in the welfare state insurance system because employees in Denmark don?t worry about job security.
Subjects: 
job satisfaction
quits
personnel economics
JEL: 
J60
J30
J28
M50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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