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JournalISSN: 1121-7081

Labour 

Wiley-Blackwell
About: Labour is an academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Wage & Unemployment. It has an ISSN identifier of 1121-7081. Over the lifetime, 1517 publications have been published receiving 20542 citations.


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01 Sep 2000-Labour
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between actual and comparison pay and job satisfaction and found that the higher expressed job satisfaction of women represents an innate difference rather than the results of self-selection into jobs with highly valued attributes.
Abstract: This paper examines sex differences in job satisfaction by utilizing data from the 1986 UK Social and Economic Life Initiative (SCELI) household survey. It attempts to ascertain the relationship between actual and comparison pay and job satisfaction. Employees were asked on a 0–10 scale how satisfied or dissatisfied they were with their present job. They were also asked to state whether they were equitably, over or underpaid and to say how much pay they thought they deserved. Uniquely, therefore, we are able to analyse the effects of both actual and objective and subjective comparative pay measures on job satisfaction. The paper rejects the view that the higher expressed job satisfaction of women represents an innate difference rather than the results of self-selection into jobs with highly valued attributes.

352 citations

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01 Sep 2004-Labour
TL;DR: Cohen et al. as discussed by the authors present an overview of their recent research on the political and social impact of mass consumption on twentieth-century America and present a summary of their major arguments, enough to entice readers to read A Consumers' Republic.
Abstract: H and social scientists analyzing the contemporary world unfortunately have too little contact and hence miss some of the ways that their interests overlap and the research of one field might benefit another. I am, therefore, extremely grateful that the Journal of Consumer Research has invited me to share with its readers an overview of my recent research on the political and social impact of the flourishing of mass consumption on twentieth-century America. What follows is a summary of my major arguments, enough to entice you, I hope, to read A Consumers’ Republic (Cohen 2003), in which I elaborate on these themes. Although this essay is by necessity schematic, the book itself is filled with extensive historical evidence and is heavily illustrated with period images. In tracing the growing importance of mass consumption to the American economy, polity, culture, and social landscape from the 1920s to the present, I in many ways establish the historical context for your research into contemporary consumer behavior and markets. I hope you will discover illuminating and fruitful connections between your work and my own. The United States came out of World War II deeply determined to prolong and enhance the economic recovery brought on by the war, lest the crippling depression of the 1930s return. Ensuring a prosperous peacetime would require making new kinds of products and selling them to different kinds of markets. Although military production would persist, and expand greatly with the cold war, its critical partner in delivering prosperity was the mass con-

260 citations

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01 Jun 2008-Labour
TL;DR: The authors provides a discussion of recent developments related to the applicability of the regression discontinuity design in economics, such as identification and estimation methods, as well as a number of sensitivity and validity tests of importance in empirical application.
Abstract: . This paper provides a discussion of recent developments related to the applicability of the regression discontinuity design in economics. It reviews econometric issues, such as identification and estimation methods, as well as a number of sensitivity and validity tests of importance in empirical application.

252 citations

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01 Mar 2009-Labour
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between training, job satisfaction, and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) was analyzed using several measures of performance including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity, and product quality.
Abstract: This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction, and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity, and product quality. Although there is clear evidence that training is positively associated with job satisfaction, and job satisfaction in turn is positively associated with most measures of performance, the relationship between training and performance is complex, depending on both the particular measures of training and of performance used in the analysis.

212 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
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202310
202223
202160
202054
201957
201842