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Piper, Alan – Education Economics, 2015
Recently the supply of young graduates entering the UK labour market has undergone a sharp increase. A possible consequence of this is an increase in the number of individuals who are overeducated for the jobs that they do subsequent to participating in higher education. Using British panel data and dynamic panel analysis, I demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Overachievement, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
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Baird, Brendan M.; Lucas, Richard E.; Donnellan, M. Brent – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Two large-scale, nationally representative panel studies (the German Socio Economic Panel Study and the British Household Panel Study) were used to assess changes in life satisfaction over the lifespan. The cross-sectional and longitudinal features of these studies were used to isolate age-related changes from confounding factors including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Indicators, Life Satisfaction, Age Differences
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Burchardt, Tania – Social Indicators Research, 2005
One of the motivations frequently cited by Sen and Nussbaum for moving away from a utility metric towards a capabilities framework is a concern about adaptive preferences or conditioned expectations. If utility is related to the satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual's previous experience of…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Reference Groups, Multivariate Analysis, Justice
Rose, Michael – 1999
The contribution of occupational profiling to explaining and forecasting job satisfaction were analyzed by using data on job satisfaction for 33,249 workers from waves 1-7 of the British Household Panel Survey. Overall job satisfaction gradients were defined for major and minor groups of occupations in the United Kingdom's Standard Occupational…
Descriptors: Alienation, Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Rose, Michael – 1999
Data from the Work History and Attitudes survey of the Social Change and Economic Life research initiative (SCELI) enquiry of 1986-1989 and the first wave of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) were analyzed to determine their continuity and comparability with regard to employee attitudes in general and job satisfaction and work centrality…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Huysse-Gaytandjieva, Anna; Groot, Wim; Pavlova, Milena – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper analyses the situation when employees fail to adapt to overall job dissatisfaction. By combining the existing knowledge in economics on job lock and in psychology on employees' feeling of being "stuck" at work, the paper explains why some employees fail to adapt when dissatisfied with their job. Thus, the paper aims to expand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Esteem, Job Satisfaction, Employees