Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86561 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 05-097/1
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Job search
job satisfaction
public sector employees
JEL: 
J28
J45
J63
M54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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