Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58848 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6174
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by King et al. (2004). This intuitively and attractive idea requires the properties of vignette equivalence and response consistency. In our data set both job satisfaction and vignettes are numerically evaluated on a 0-10-scale. This fact allows us to interpret the evaluations as cardinal satisfaction values and to estimate satisfaction functions for vignettes and for the own job situation. We find that both functions differ significantly: vignette evaluations appear to depend on the own job situation and other individual characteristics. Hence, without correction for those differences in background characteristics, vignette evaluations are not comparable between individuals. Similar conclusions are reached for response consistency.
Subjects: 
vignettes
vignette equivalence
response consistency
job satisfaction
subjective well-being
JEL: 
J28
D6
J24
C25
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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