Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together

We analyze the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of employees’ quit behavior. Our data contain both detailed information on perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and quit intentions from a cross‐section survey, and information on employees’ actual job switches from long...

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Published inIndustrial relations (Berkeley) Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 73 - 96
Main Authors BÖCKERMAN, PETRI, ILMAKUNNAS, PEKKA
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.01.2009
Subjects
Behavior
Discontent
Job Satisfaction
Job Search
Labour relations
Labour turnover
Occupational Roles
Working conditions
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Summary:We analyze the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of employees’ quit behavior. Our data contain both detailed information on perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and quit intentions from a cross‐section survey, and information on employees’ actual job switches from longitudinal register data that can be linked to the survey. We show that job dissatisfaction that arises in adverse working conditions is related to job search and this in turn is related to actual job switches.
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petri.bockerman@labour.fi
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The authors would like to thank three anonymous referees and Trond Petersen (the editor) for valuable comments that have greatly improved the paper. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the EALE Conference, Prague, and at the Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society, Warwick. The data can be accessed on site at the Research Laboratory of the Business Structures Unit of Statistics Finland. We are grateful to Satu Nurmi and Juha Honkkila for linking the data sets for our use. This study has been funded by the Finnish Work Environment Fund (Työsuojelurahasto). The paper is also part of the Academy of Finland research program on the future of work and well‐being. The usual disclaimer applies.
The authors’ affiliations are, respectively, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki; and Helsinki School of Economics and HECER. E‐mails
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ISSN:0019-8676
1468-232X
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00546.x