Does Job Satisfaction Adapt to Working Conditions? An Empirical Analysis for Rotating Shift Work, Flextime, and Temporary Employment in UK
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Lüneburg: Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, 2011. (FFB- Discussion Paper; No. 87).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Does Job Satisfaction Adapt to Working Conditions?
T2 - An Empirical Analysis for Rotating Shift Work, Flextime, and Temporary Employment in UK
AU - Hanglberger, Dominik
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The hedonic treadmill model for subjective well-being was subject to several recent empirical analyses based on individual panel data. Most of this adaptation literature is concentrated on how life events affect measures of life satisfaction and happiness, whereas adaptation processes of domain satisfactions like job satisfaction are largely unstudied. The aim of this paper is to test empirically adaptation processes of self-reported job satisfaction. For this purpose we consider flexibility characteristics of a job and derive hypotheses about which flexibility measures allow for or impede adaptation processes. Hypotheses are tested using data from up to 18 waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). We estimate fixed-effects panel models to test adaptation processes based on intra-individual changes in job satisfaction. Our results show no adaptation to rotating shift work, little adaptation to temporary employment, but full adaptation to flextime regulations.
AB - The hedonic treadmill model for subjective well-being was subject to several recent empirical analyses based on individual panel data. Most of this adaptation literature is concentrated on how life events affect measures of life satisfaction and happiness, whereas adaptation processes of domain satisfactions like job satisfaction are largely unstudied. The aim of this paper is to test empirically adaptation processes of self-reported job satisfaction. For this purpose we consider flexibility characteristics of a job and derive hypotheses about which flexibility measures allow for or impede adaptation processes. Hypotheses are tested using data from up to 18 waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). We estimate fixed-effects panel models to test adaptation processes based on intra-individual changes in job satisfaction. Our results show no adaptation to rotating shift work, little adaptation to temporary employment, but full adaptation to flextime regulations.
KW - Economics, empirical/statistics
KW - job satisfaction
KW - adaptation
KW - hedonic treadmill model
KW - rotating shift work
KW - temporary employment
KW - flextime
KW - British Household Panel Study, fixed-effects panel estimation
KW - fixed-effects panel estimation
KW - Gender and Diversity
M3 - Working papers
T3 - FFB- Discussion Paper
BT - Does Job Satisfaction Adapt to Working Conditions?
PB - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe
CY - Lüneburg
ER -