Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/97199 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Schumpeter Discussion Papers No. 2014-007
Publisher: 
University of Wuppertal, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, Wuppertal
Abstract: 
Previous literature stressed on the gender differences in job satisfaction and the factors influencing the job satisfaction of men and women. Two rationales are usually provided for the finding that women tend to be relatively more satisfied with their jobs than men although disadvantaged in labour markets: first, women may have relatively lower expectations of career and income, and second, they may attach relatively less importance to extrinsic rewards than men. In order to analyse whether substantial gender differences exist already at the beginning of the career, we employ information of over 20000 graduates collected through a large-scale survey of German university graduates who recently entered the labour market. We find that the job satisfaction of female graduates is on average slightly lower than the job satisfaction of male graduates, but our results do not point to substantial gender differences. In our sample of highly qualified individuals, men and women are very similar in what they want from their jobs and also in their perceptions of what they get. While our results point to substantial similarity of men and women in the early career stage, gender differences may emerge at later stages of the career life cycle.
Subjects: 
job satisfaction
gender differences
working conditions
JEL: 
J16
J28
J81
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
817.52 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.