Download This PaperPeer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace
16 Pages Posted: 7 Jul 2012
Abstract
We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not.
Keywords: job satisfaction, earnings, gender, segregation, workplace
JEL Classification: J3, J7, J28
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Mumford, Karen A. and Smith, Peter N., Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace. IZA Discussion Paper No. 6673, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2101940 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2101940
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