Labor Mismatches: Effects on Wages and on Job Satisfaction in 17 OECD Countries

Romero, Lucía Mateos; Salinas-Jiménez, María del Mar

doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1830-y

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“…Skill and discretion : This dimension refer to the skills required for the job and the level of job autonomy. Both are pointed to in the literature as relevant factors influencing job satisfaction since they enhance job identification and commitment ( Fregin et al, 2018 ; Mateos-Romero and del Mar Salinas-Jiménez, 2018 ).…”

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Comparing working conditions and job satisfaction in hospitality workers across Europe

Díaz-Carrión

Romero

Casas‐Rosal

2020

International Journal of Hospitality Management

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Highlights The study explores the influence of the institutional context on job satisfaction. The research develops a multilevel analysis that considers institutional and organizational factors. Data of 22792 employees of 16 European countries from the Sixth European Working Conditions Survey are part of the sample. A novel classification of countries according to their working conditions is provided.

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Comparing working conditions and job satisfaction in hospitality workers across Europe

Díaz-Carrión

Romero

Casas‐Rosal

2020

International Journal of Hospitality Management

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“…More recent work [60] uses 2005 ISSP data for 32 countries, shows that women and mothers occupy more satisfying jobs in countries with more extensive workplace flexibility. As regards job skills, another more recent study [61], using Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC) data for 17 OECD countries, reports that the impact of labor mismatches on job satisfaction is generally better explained by skills mismatch, although educational mismatches have a greater effect on wages. Lastly, drawing on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, some literature reveals that although entrepreneurial innovation benefits the job satisfaction, work-family balance, and life satisfaction of entrepreneurs globally, in China, it benefits only satisfaction with work-family balance and life–not job satisfaction [62].…”

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Why are Chinese workers so unhappy? A comparative cross-national analysis of job satisfaction, job expectations, and job attributes

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Using data from the 2015 International Social Survey Program (ISSP), this study conducts a multinational comparison of job satisfaction determinants and their drivers in 36 countries and regions, with particular attention to the reasons for relatively low job satisfaction among Chinese workers. Based on our results from a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis, we attribute a substantial portion of the job satisfaction differences between China and the other countries to different job attributes and expectations; in particular, to unmet job expectations for interesting work, high pay, and opportunities for advancement. We also note that, contrary to common belief, Chinese workers value similar attributes as Western workers but perceive their work conditions as very different from those in the West.

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“…The fear of declines in the returns to education has gained much political and academic attention (Ioakimidis 2018;Mateos-Romero and del Mar Salinas-Jiménez 2018;Knight et al 2017). However, the empirical results are somewhat contradicting: educational expansion coincided in many countries with a decrease in occupational outcomes of tertiary education holders, whereas economic returns increased at the same time (Bernardi and Ballarino 2016).…”

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More necessary and less sufficient: an age-period-cohort approach to overeducation from a comparative perspective

2019

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In many countries, the skilled labor market has lagged educational expansion. As a result of increased competition, younger cohorts of the highly educated face decreasing returns to education or overeducation. Surprisingly, decreasing occupational outcomes do not coincide empirically with the economic returns among those with tertiary education. Regarding the process of changes in economic returns to education based on cohort transformations, we expect that the expansion of tertiary education affects specific cohorts, which find themselves facing more labor market competition. As a result, the economic returns to education should decrease among younger cohorts even when the overall returns to education remain stable over time. To study this process, we model economic returns with a new age-period-cohort-trended lag (APCTLAG) method, which allows us to compare the gap in economic returns between tertiary and less than tertiary education over cohorts. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we analyze trends over three decades in 12 countries. Our results confirm that educational returns for tertiary education have declined over time, even though the gap between the educated and the less educated has remained similar in most of the countries. For younger cohorts, tertiary education has become more necessary to survive in the competitive labor market, but the actual economic returns have decreased-making tertiary education less sufficient than before.

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Labor Mismatches: Effects on Wages and on Job Satisfaction in 17 OECD Countries

Cited by 40 publications

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Comparing working conditions and job satisfaction in hospitality workers across Europe

Comparing working conditions and job satisfaction in hospitality workers across Europe

Why are Chinese workers so unhappy? A comparative cross-national analysis of job satisfaction, job expectations, and job attributes

More necessary and less sufficient: an age-period-cohort approach to overeducation from a comparative perspective

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