Labour contract regulations and workers' wellbeing: International longitudinal evidence

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“…Moreover, health and safety at work and reconciling work and family life dimensions are significant determinants of job satisfaction. With respect to the variables related to financial job characteristics, net monthly income is a positive and highly significant variable in explaining job satisfaction, in line with findings reported in empirical studies about Spain and other countries (Grund and Sliwka 2004;Kristensen and Johansson 2008;Clark 2009;Salvatori 2010;Helliwell and Huang 2011). Even more, this variable exhibits the largest marginal effect for model 2.…”

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