New evidence on cross-country differences in job satisfaction using anchoring vignettes

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-117

  Kristensen, Nicolai ^a   Johansson, Edvard ^b  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chopit model; Cross country comparison; Job Satisfaction; Omitted variable bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249042245     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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