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Michael A. Shields

Researcher at Monash University

Publications -  136
Citations -  12737

Michael A. Shields is an academic researcher from Monash University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Socioeconomic status. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 130 publications receiving 11804 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael A. Shields include Monash University, Clayton campus & University of Melbourne.

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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles

Andrew E. Clark, +2 more
- 01 Mar 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the evidence on relative income from the subjective well-being literature and discuss the relation (or not) between happiness and utility, and discuss some nonhappiness research (behavioral, experimental, neurological) related to income comparisons.
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Relative income, happiness, and utility : an explanation for the Easterlin paradox and other puzzles

Andrew E. Clark, +2 more
- 01 Mar 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the evidence on relative income from the subjective well-being literature and discuss the relation (or not) between happiness and utility, and discuss some nonhappiness research (behavioral, experimental, neurological) related to income comparisons.
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Money does matter! Evidence from increasing real income and life satisfaction in East Germany following reunification

Paul Frijters, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2004 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a new conditional fixed-effect ordinal estimator to their measure of life satisfaction using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP).
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Improving Nurse Retention in the National Health Service in England: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit

Michael A. Shields, +4 more
- 01 May 2001 - 
TL;DR: It is found that nurses who report overall dissatisfaction with their jobs have a 65% higher probability of intending to quit the NHS than those reporting to be satisfied, however, dissatisfaction with promotion and training opportunities are found to have a stronger impact than workload or pay.
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Improving nurse retention in the National Health Service in England: the impact of job satisfaction on intentions to quit.

Michael A. Shields, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2001 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses and establish the importance of job dissatisfaction in determining nurses' intentions to quit the British National Health Service (NHS).