Workplace Job Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data

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“…Therefore, the dependent variable, reflecting the perception of job insecurity, is measured at the first level of the hierarchy and the explanatory variables are measured at the level of the individual and the level of the establishment. Failure to take into account this double source of heterogeneity would lead to estimation bias (Haile, 2015).…”

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