The paper examines gender differences in intra-firm and inter-firm job changes, including worker-initiated and firm-initiated separations, for white full-time British workers over the period 1991-96. We document four main findings. First, job mobility is high for both men and women, with more than one quarter of the sample changing job each year. Second, the distinction between promotions, quit...

We investigate the effect of union membership on job satisfaction. Whilst it is common to study the effects of union status on satisfaction treating individual membership as given, in this paper, we account for the endogenous selection induced by the sorting of workers into unionised jobs. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we address ...

Reservation Wages, Search Duration, and Accepted Wages in Europe This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel, 1994-99, to investigate the arrival rate of job offers, the determinants of reservation wages, transitions out of unemployment, and accepted wages. In this exploratory treatment, we report that the arrival rate of job offers declines precipitously with jobless durat...

This paper examines whether there is a causal relationship from job displacement to all–cause mortality. The hypothesis is tested for all employees who lost their job due to a plant closure in Sweden in 1987 and 1988. The control group is a random sample of all employees who did not experience a plant closure during the mid 1980s. Apart from variables commonly available in such studies (age, se...

Old-age obesity is prevalent and increasing; there is no systematic research on the labor market outcomes of obese elders. Using the data on men aged 70-79 from the Health and Retirement Study and panel econometrics allowing for individual fixed-effects, we present evidence that obesity increases labor supply at old-age: an increase among the obese, compared to the normal weight, of 3.8 percent...

Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers’ employment histories, we investigate how workers’ labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for worker flows from employment to another job, to unemployment, and to nonparticipation. Outsourcing is fou...

The concept covers a wide range of health criteria; in general, this gives rise to a classification involving the following categories: job-related ill-health; job-related discomfort (physical and mental); mental well-being; social well-being; professional and skills development. To illustrate how all these dimensions are related to health, we can position them on the bipolar continuum that has...

Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover: A Firm-Level Perspective* In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm’s ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the employer-employee relation is repeated and...

This paper presents a system for suggesting a ranked list of appropriate vacancy descriptions to job seekers in a job board web site. In particular our work has explored the use of supervised classifiers with the objective of learning implicit relations which cannot be found with similarity or pattern based search methods that rely only on explicit information. Skills, names of professions and ...

This paper examines the relationship between sexual harassment and the job satisfaction and intended turnover of active-duty women in the US military. Using single-equation probit models, we find that experiencing a sexually harassing behavior is associated with reduced job satisfaction and heightened intentions to leave the military. However, bivariate probit results indicate that failing to c...