We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total compensation as well as for different parts of the compensation package of managers. Making use of a unique panel data set of managers of the German chemical sector, we find that social comparisons of compensat...

Don’t Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness also a driver of behavior and life’s outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a significant inverted U-shaped relationship exists between residual happiness and an unemployed individual’s...

This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study. The determinants of interest include actual pay, relative pay, hours of work, job autonomy and several personal characteristics. We also investigate the determinants of satisfaction with pay conditional on a worker's satisfaction with other domains of job satisfaction, such ...

The concept of procedural utility assumes that agents do not only receive utility from outcomes, but also attach an independent value to the procedures that lead to these outcomes. This paper analyzes whether the preferences that underlie procedural utility are homogeneous, using the case of independence at the workplace. I exploit the event of German reunification to assign preferences for ind...

There are many scholarly articles in the literature sources that refer to the employee performance evaluation topic. Many scholars, for example, describe relations between employees’ job satisfaction, or motivation, and their performance. Others deal with the performance evaluation of the whole organization where they include tangible and intangible metrics. However, only few of them provide wi...

• Many evaluations of spoken dialogue systems are focussed on defining and collecting quantitative measures. • Other studies concentrate on users' perceptions only. • Only a few studies describe quality ratings in terms of both system properties and user judgements. • We used the PARADISE framework (i) to gain insight into the factors affecting the user satisfaction of a spoken dialogue system,...

E-learning controlling quality ready to demonstrate the achievement of conveyance and plan framework by understanding user satisfaction. Besides, qualification between learning substance site content should be parallel whereby both will impact one another influence satisfaction t fulfillment. After examination has closed, concern emerges on how elements e-learning in service, system information...

The terminal is a manifestation of road transportation node that serves the community as location, such intra- and intermodal locations for passengers loading unloading goods, well regulating smooth flow arrivals departures public vehicles. purpose this study to determine level satisfaction service performance using objective measures highlight changes should be made Kampung Rambutan service. m...

This study aimed at examining the satisfaction of users in small and medium-seized enterprises (SMEs) with ERP systems and at finding if user satisfaction is related to perceived usefulness (PU) and to various characteristics of the user, the organization and the system. In setting the background for the study, we reviewed the literature about ERP systems, Small or Medium-sized Enterprises (SME...

Casual conversation seems to be the last domain in which logic may be successfully applied. We want to demonstrate here that this intuition is incorrect. On the contrary, logic offers a new perspective on conversation, not at the behavioural level, but at the argumentative level. By studying the way arguments are logically linked together, we can observe new phenomena, like conflicting beliefs ...